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BY BROTHER PAUL 







*'We live in deeds, not years; in tKoughts, not breaths; 
In feelings, not in figures on a dial. 
We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives 
Who thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best. 
Life's but a means unto an end — that end, 
Beginning, mean and end to all things — God." 

— Festus. 




ESOTERIC PUBLISHING COMPANY, 
APPLEGATE,; CALIFORNIA. 

1898. 





THE ROAD TO IMMORTALITY, 



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BY BROTHER PAUL. 



'We live in deeds, not years; in. thoughts, not breaths; 
In feelings, not in figures on a dial. 
We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives 
Who thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best. 
Life's but a means unto an end — that end, 
Beginning, mean and end to all things — God." 

— Festus. 



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PREFACE. VII 

it has reached a state of unfoldment that permits it to live 
independent of material conditions. 

The purpose of God in creating man, was to produce a be- 
ing in his image and likeness; they were to have dominion over 
all the earth, to command and be obeyed. Adam, the father of 
the present race, had unfolded the image of the Father, but 
not the likeness, namely, the power to use the creative word; 
therefore he was not a perfect representative of the word, or 
thought of God, which will not be fully ultimated until the like- 
ness is attained. Adam, not having unfolded the nature of 
the perfect man, could not eat of the fruit of the tree of life, 
and live. But, as it was necessary for the likeness to be attained, 
he was permitted to eat of the fruit, in order that through 
experience man might unfold and gain knowledge and under- 
standing. One short earth life is inadequate to produce such 
a perfect being; if it were, gods would walk among men. There 
fore the necessity of re-incarnation, which permits the spirit- 
ual ego, the real man, to return again and again to earth, times 
without number, until he gains knowledge sufficient to enable 
him to understand the purpose and will^of God. 

The human family have become so merged into the material 
elements, and their senses so benumbed by passion and sin, 
that they cannot comprehend spiritual things. Their physical 
organism has become so gross that the interior man is unable 
to manifest through it. They have lost sight of the powers of 
spirit, which are latent within. They cannot remember the past 
because they continually deny it, and they will not obtain a re- 
membrance of it until a soul consciousness has been developed. 
However, knowledge has been stored up by the soul and can be 
used by it whenever the requisite conditions are gained and main- 
tained. It is only the lower self that prevents the spirit of man 
from expressing its true nature: when this has been made the 
server instead of the ruler, man is no longer a mortal, but an 
immortal; he has gained the dominion over all earthly things, 
and is a glorified son of God, a king, with power to rule the earth. 



VIII PREFACE. 

We earnestly hope that our readers will give these truths 
their earnest consideration. We hope that they will not be- 
come discouraged if failure marks their early efforts. They 
should bear in mind that, if they would gain immortality, they 
must expect to devote years of patient labor to the accom- 
plishment of their purpose; no one can eradicate the evils of 
his nature until it has been entirely reformed, or re-created, 
The writer is personally acquainted with those who labored ter 
years before they overcame the powers of the serpent. Those 
who accomplish this in seven years are fortunate indeed. Re 
member that, if you enlist in this great fight that is to emanci 
pate you from the evils of flesh and give you the dominioi 
over the powers of death and the grave, you must be preparei 
to overcome all obstacles. Refuse to be discouraged, but pres 
ever onward, feeling that you have been created a son of God 
therefore are able to conquer all the evil influences, seen am 
unseen, that would bar your progress and hold you in slaver 
to earthly environment and conditions. 

To be free, man must feel, nay, desire with all his heart, tha 
his sins go before him to judgment. This brings much sorro< 
and many trials, but trials are necessary in order that man ma 
learn that if he would be master he must " tread the wine pre* 
alone." He must walk the narrow way unaided by friend ( 
companion, depending upon no earthly power, but upon tl 
God of the universe, to help, sustain, and lead. 

May the light of God's presence be ever a guide to all tho 
who strive after the priceless pearl, immortality. It is the ce 
tral jewel in the kingly crown which all will possess after tin 
have been nailed to the cross, and are clothed in the spotle 
garments of eternal life. May the peace of God rest up 
his children; and may his love abide with them forever. 

The Author. 






PREFACE. 

The thoughts herein expressed are sent forth with an earnest 
prayer that they may be acceptable, and beneficial to the dear 
ones who crave that spiritual bread which alone can satisfy the 
hunger of the soul. The life of consecration and trust in our 
heavenly Father has been lived by the author for a number of 
years. These years have been spent with a company of people, 
who, apart from the world, were all living the same consecrated 
life. Therefore he feels in a position to speak from absolute 
knowledge, and that he does not overstate facts in saying, that 
all who dedicate their lives to God, and live absolutely up to 
the requirements of the covenant given to Moses on Sinai, will 
have all their wants supplied, will never suffer sickness or sor- 
row, and will eventually overcome the ruler of death and the 
grave. This statement does not apply to those who believe 
themselves to be living a life of consecration; but only to those 
who live that life in deed and in truth. Man cannot accom- 
plish this in his own strength, but, as grand old Isaiah truly 
says, " Trust ye in the Lord forever; for in the Lord JEHO- 
VAH is everlasting strength.' Isaiah xxvi. 4. 

The life of chastity, as set forth in the following pages, must 
be adhered to, as no one can consecrate his life to God, unless 
he is living a life of absolute holiness and purity. This life 
of chastity is the same as was lived and taught by our Lord 
Jesus the Christ, nineteen hundred years ago. It is therefore 
hoped that all zealous Christian men and women who desire 
to live the Christ life, will give these methods their earnest 
and prayerful consideration. 

All men desire and look forward to a time when they will 
enjoy an immortal existence, free from disease, sorrow, and 



\ I PREFACE. 

death. They look for this celestial state to obtain j 
physical has been laid in the grave. This belief is a very 
rious mistake and does much to retard the progress of the sou 1* 
The truth is, that immortality has never been, neither will 
ever be gained, unless the consciousness of the soul 1 
awakened while dwelling in a physical body. It was 
purpose that God gave man a material body. The gal 
the grave opens into a realm of unconsciousness or semi-< 
sciousness, not into a realm of spiritual, everlasting conscious- 
ness; which is the only consciousness that makes mar. 
tal. 

An unceasing consciousness can only be obtained v hile the 
spiritual ego inhabits an earthly tabernacle; and this conscious, 
ness must be unfolded through the application of 
in harmony with spiritual law. These laws cannot be 
to or understood until the soul has, through the pro< 
lution, gained a high degree of unfoldment. When tl ss- 

sary degree of unfoldment has been gained by 
reaches upward to the Father to know hi: « sL 

This reaching upward of the soul is ihe sile< atibn, or 

prayer, that is always answered. God answers all such pray- 
ers in these words, "If ye will obey my voice indeed, and 
keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto 
me above all people; for all the earth is jnine." Ex. xix. 5. 
Therefore, the reason for the necessity of dedicating the life 
to God is, that we may hi for our protector. If man 

endeavors to gain immortality ough his own efforts he will 
find only faih 

The atheist, as we'll as all other classes who reject God and 
worship a creation of their own imagination, cannot hope for 
an immortal existence; he can expect nothing more in this 
work! than an intellectual, semi-conscious existence, and in the 
world to come a consciousness measured by the attention paid 
to spiritual things while on earth. One thing is certain: The 
soul of man does not develop after it leaves the body, unless 



CHAPTER I, 



WHAT IMMORTALITY IMPLIES. 

Sages of every age have sought the Elixir Vitm. Some claimed 
to have found it, while others, after years of study and research, 
have declared that "man was born to die," that eternal youth, 
or an immortal existence in the physical body, is but a delu- 
sion, a chimera, a creation of a disordered brain. Whether 
these wise ones spoke the truth or were themselves deluded, 
we will leave the reader to decide. If the thoughts herein ex- 
pressed prove to be of benefit to one soul seeking the light, the 
object of the writer shall have been accomplished. The soul's 
prayer, "Oh Father, let thy mind and will control the thought," 
shall have been answered. If nothing else be attained, at least 
the writer will have the consciousness that he has acted in ac- 
cordance with the will of the Father, and in so doing has les- 
sened the distance between himself and the goal of his desires. 
If the reader is a seeker after truth, then he has but to "prove 
all things, and hold fast that which is good." 

Jesus, the greatest of all teachers and expounders of divine 
truth, nearly nineteen hundred years ago gave utterance to these 
words: "But I tell you of a truth, there be some standing here, 
which shall not taste of death, til" they see the kingdom of God." 
Luke IX. 27. The kingdom Jesus spoke of has not yet come; 
therefore the natural conclusion is, that there is at .least one man 
auve on earth who has retained the physical body for nineteen 
hundred years. As God's laws are unchangeable, it must follow 
that all who obey them will obtain similar results. The divine 
laws and methods that will produce such marvelous results, we 
will endeavor to explain. We assure our readers that all who 
apply these methods faithfully and earnestly, with a determina- 



10 THE ROAD TO IMMORTALITY. 

tion that knows no such thing- as failure, may drink from the 
fountains of eternal youth, may draw wisdom, knowledge, and 
understanding direct from the fountainhead of (iod's own mind. 
The individual who can draw sustenance from the Infinite Life, 
will be always able to rejuvenate his body and perpetuate his ex- 
istence. He alone of all the sons of men has dominion over death 
and the grave. Before we speak of the laws whereby an im- 
mortal existence is made possible, we will try to make plain the 
true understanding of the term "immortality." 

When the term "im mortal life" is used, we do not wish the 
reader to understand that the physical body, as we see it mani- 
fest to the external sight, is to be retained throughout the end- 
less ages of eternity. Undoubtedly there will come a time, 
when, of his own free will and desire, the immortal man, the 
acknowledged son of God, will willingly lay aside his earthly 
house of clay, in order to pass on to higher spheres of service. 
The immortal man lives wholly from the realm of mind, and 
when his labors here below are finished the physical body will 
be no longer needed. It will then become an incumbrance, im- 
peding the free action of the spirit. Such an one will, however, 
retain his body until his use as a worker on earth is ulti mated, 
be it one hundred, or one thousand years hence. 

Immortality, in its truest sense, means a state of spiritual 
sensibility in which the individual possesses an everlasting, un- 
ceasing, consciousness; a mind consciously active, that never 
ceases to form thought whether he is asleep or awake. Whether 
he inhabits an earthly tabernacle, or has been freed from th< 
bondage of flesh and clothed in celestial garments, he who has 
attained immortality is a dweller in the spiritual realms wit 
the emancipated sons and daughters of earth, who have passed 
on to those higher spheres; there is his real home. 

Immortality implies that all the evils incident to earth life, 
and also the old accuser that has deceived the human family 
from the beginning, have been overcome. It means that the sins 
of the past, the sins of omission and commission, have "o- nebe- 



THE ROAD TO IMMORTALITY. 11 

fore him to judgment," and that the individual stands justified 
by him who searcheth and knoweth the hearts of all men. It 
means that, although dwelling in a physical form, he, the real 
man, is clothed in the spotless garments of spirit; he has been 
washed and made clean, he has been born again, not of flesh, 
which is corruptible, but of spirit which is incorruptible, which 
oasses not away but is eternal, being of God, our Creator and 
Preserver. Immortality means that man is filled with the in- 
flowing currents of divine life, with the eternal breath of God, 
which like a consuming fire burns away the dross, leaving noth- 
ing but the purest elements, only those that will withstand the 
ravages of time: u and (God) breathed into his nostrils the 
breath of life: and man became a living soul." Genesis ir. 7. 
The term immortality implies that man has become one with 
the Father; he can do nothing of himself, u the Father dwelling 
within, he doeth the work." 

The ffreat mistake of the Christian church is in believing 
that man must die in order to enter into immortal life. Such a. 
belief is not only misleading, but it is a barrier to soul growth 
and unfoldment. It is a clog upon man's footsteps, retarding his 
progress toward the goal of earthly and spiritual attainment, 
and fettering him to a material existence. It contracts the in- 
tellect, dwarfs the understanding, and prevents man from com- 
prehending the purpose of the divine Father. When God 
created man, he expressed his purpose in these words, "Let us 
make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have 
] -ninion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, 

I over the cattle, and over all the earth." If it is true that 
i was created in the image and likeness of God, then it 
t follow that, when he has unfolded that likeness, he will 
have become immortal and cannot die. He must live on, ever 
growing in spiritual power, until he reaches a period when the 
spiritual ego, the real, conscious man, is able to understand the 
purpose and will of the divine Father. Then and not till then 
will he be one with the immortals, and, being filled with wisdom 



rJ THE ROAD TO IMMORTALITY. 

and love, he will be intrusted with spiritual powers which will 
not only enable him to say to the elements, "Peace, be still," 
but truthfully to exclaim, u Oh death, where is thy sting? Oh 
grave, where is thy victory?" 

No man, be he Jew, Christian, Pagan, or Gentile, who passes 
into the unseen land through the gateway of the grave, be- 
comes thereby immortal in the true acceptation of the term. The 
man w T hose physical body sees corruption, and becomes food 
for worms, is not immortal, no matter what he imagines himself 
to be. The man who has not overcome death and the -grave is 
still mortal; a spiritual soul, clothed it may be in a beautiful 
form, with a mind development which makes him a peer among 
his fellows, a leader and controller of men, yet he is only a hu- 
man animal, and cannot express the image in which he was 
created. It is sad, nevertheless it is true, that such an one 
may pass into the realm of souls with a consciousness of spirit 
but a few degrees greater than that possessed by one apparently 
far below him in the scale of unfoldment. It frequently occurs 
that he does not regain consciousness after the mortal breath 
leaves the body. However, the degree of consciousness pos- 
sessed after death depends entirely upon the degree of recog- 
nition given the soul life or consciousness, and its consequent 
growth and unfoldment, while on earth. The man who is un- 
conscious after death will remain so until, in the fullness of 
time, mother nature awakens him and forces him back into an- 
other mortal body, where he will be compelled to take up I 
thread of life where it was broken off. The mortal man 
compelled by forcing circumstances to take upon himself j 
covering of flesh in order that the expressed purpose of h\B 
Creator may be ultimated. The immortal man who, for a 
purpose, desires to return to earth, takes upon himself a body 
suited to the needs that bring him among men, and retains it 
only as long as he finds a use for it. It is only through rein- 
carnation that man gains knowledge enabling him to put off 
the mortal and take on the immortal. The purpose underlying 






THE ROAD TO IMMORTALITY. 13 

the expulsion of Adam from the garden of Eden was that man 
might become immortal: when he gains the desired end, he will 
re-enter the Paradise of God, never again to be driven out. 

When the individual has reached that high altitude of soul 
growth giving him access to the realm of spirit wherein dwell 
the immortal ones, desires to renounce the fleshly body, he 
does not lay it in the grave, but, by the power of the Father's 
will, which has become a part of himself, he commands, 
" Dust to dust, ashes to ashes, " and, in obedience to the power 
of the omnipotent word, which is the deific thought from which 
the spiritual ego has developed, the atoms composing the phys- 
ical covering separate and return to the source whence they 
were drawn. The spiritual immortal man, forever free from 
the thralldom of earthly conditions, passes onward to the realm 
of the blest, where, the realm in which he shall labor as one of" 
the gods, is determined by USK, the great law of spirit. In the 
spiritual realm alone, which can only be entered by those who 
have developed unceasing consciousness, does man enjoy per- 
petual youth, being sustained and nourished from that illimit- 
able fountain of eternal life, — God. He who is able to drink 
from this everflowing, ever- vivifying, fountain has indeed dis- 
covered the Elixir of Life, the Philosopher's Stone, which en- 
ables him to be what he wills to be. Such an one, if he so de- 
sires, can return to earth as a savior of men. If this is his 
choice, he must, being superior to the men of earth, walk among 
them, " treading the wine press alone," unknown, and perhaps 
despised; yet he is ever conscious of the overshadowing love of 
his Creator, and can exclaim, as did our Lord and Master, our 
greatly beloved brother, Jesus the Christ," The Father has not 
left me alone; for I do always those things that please him." 
The Spirit of God never leaves such an one, but in the dark- 
est hour of trial, when the sins of a perverted world almost 
crush the sensitive soul, when the bitter cup of trial is placed 
to the lips, he can, in the solitude of his chamber where adver- 
saries cannot enter, return to his spiritual home and to those 




14 THE ROAD TO IMMORTALITY. 

who know and love him for his great sacrifice, and there receive 
the strength to perform his work on earth. Such an immortal 
Son of God, was Jesus, who permitted his body to be laid in 
the grave for three days, proving to the world that " the word 
became flesh, and dwelt among us, — and we beheld his glory 
glory of an only-begotten from a father, — full of favor and 
truth." ( E. G. ) St. John I. 14 

If the man who has gained the pearl of great price, who lias 
eaten of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, 
chooses to remain on earth as a server among men. he may do 
so: he that is greatest among you, is servant of all. If this 
be his choice he can not only retain his youth and vigor, but he 
can keep his mental faculties unimpared: he can even increase his 
capacity to understand the laws governing the realm of shadows 
called "earth." He draws his knowledge from the cause realm 
which produces all the phenomena witnessed among men. He 
lives entirely on spiritual food, thinks only spiritual thoughts 
in harmony with the purpose of God, and, as days succeed 
days, his powers increase, until his wisdom transcends the wis- 
dom of men; verily he is no longer a human, but a divine man. 
He can, if he so desires, walk the earth a king, a priest unto 
God, one with the celestials, not only possessing power over the 
things of earth, but also over the unseen forces of nature. 

The foregoing statements are based upon knowledge, as well 
as upon the assurance of God himself. In Holy Writ we read, 
"But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; 
and all these things shall be added unto you/' Matt, vi ; 
If God commanded man to seek his kingdom, it certainly 
lows that he can, if he be diligent, find it, for God does 
mock the child he has created. If it is possible to find 
kingdom of God, it is surely possible to gain immortal lite, for 
no one can dwell in that kingdom unless all the sins of earth 
life have been washed away and a spiritual consciousness gained. 
A spiritual consciousness must be an immortal consciousness, as 
spirit is eternal. Again, God is spirit, and only in spirit can 



THE ROAD TO IMMORTALITY. 15 

we truly worship him. If, therefore, man does not become 
spiritual, which is another term for immortal, he can never gain 
heaven, can never worship the Father. Thank God, however, 
the way leading- to heaven is simple, and easy to find; "the 
wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein." The pur- 
pose in giving these thoughts to the world is to point out the 
road that leads from a land of sin, sorrow and death, to one 
where death and sorrow cannot enter, but where the Angel of 
peace and love rules. The love of the angels will always over- 
shadow the sons and daughters of earth who have renounced 
the flesh and are seeking immortal life, — oneness with God, the 
Father and Creator of the universe. 

Until he has paid every debt he owes, the individual must 
remain a mortal, must be subject to the law of death and de- 
cay, and must continue to return into a fleshly body. If he is 
an unjust^man, if he loves not his neighbor as himself, if he 
takes the name of the Lord in vain, if he bows down to graven 
images, if he worships the golden calf, if he is bound by the 
physical senses and desires, if his mind is clouded by the pas- 
sions, he must return to earth, times without number, or until 
he has become as pure and innocent as a little babe; it is only 
as a little child that he can enter heaven. Heaven is not a 
place, but a condition, a state of consciousness; and until he is 
able to maintain this heavenly- state within himself, man cannot 
gain immortality. Until he is able to do so he must earn his 
bread in the sweat of his brow, he is still under the law. He 
must labor on earth as a mortal until he has unfolded the like- 
ness of God in which he was created. Only after the spirit, 
the inner man, gains the dominion over matter is man able to 
break the shackles of flesh. Not until then can he stand as a 
king, a sovereign having dominion over the old adversary, the 
serpent, who has filled our fair earth with sin and error, — the di- 
rect cause of misery and death. Man cannot be an immortal, un- 
til he is free from the binding and limiting influence of a material 
existence; he cannot conquer the power of the grave until he 



16 THE ROAD TO IMMORTALITY. 

has obtained control of the forces of nature, which have always 
compelled the race to be slaves instead of free men. 

"This life's a mystery. 
The value of a thought cannot be told: 
But it is clearly worth a thousand lives 
Like many men's. And yet men love to live 
As if mere life were worth their living for. 
What but perdition will it be to most? 
Life's more than breath and the quick round of blood 
It is a great spirit and a busy heart. 
The coward and the small in soul scarce do live. 
One generous feeling — one great thought — one deed 
Of good, ere night, would make life longer seem 
Than if each year might number a thousand days,— 
Spent as is this by nations of mankind. 
We live in deeds, not years: in thoughts, not breaths: 
In feelings, not in figures on a dial. 
We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives 
Who thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best. 
Life's but a means unto an end— that end, 
Beginning, mean and end to all things — God." 



CHAPTER II. 



RIGHT THOUGHT. 

In order to intelligently enter the cause or soul realm it is 
indispensable that the individual have an understanding of the 
laws governing that world and the methods of putting himself 
in harmony with them. As this book is written for general cir- 
culation, the necessary explanation will be made in the simplest 
language possible, and we ask the reader to withhold judg- 
ment until he has given them his earnest thought. We promise 
that if the methods given are faithfully practiced, the results 
claimed for them certainly will be realized. Should the student 
fail to realize them, it will not be the fault of the methods, but 
because of a lack of will and determination on the part of the 
individual. These laws are God's laws, therefore, they are not 
subject to change; man is. As he grows in spiritual understand- 
ing, he becomes sensitive to the operation of these laws; and, 
therefore, can readily perceive, obey, and benefit by them. It 
is for the purpose of giving timely suggestions that we present 
these methods; and we feel satisfied that, if they are adhered 
to, the individual will be led to where he need no longer depend 
upon mortals for instruction and advice. He will be led to where 
the consciousness of the spiritual ego, will be his consciousness; 
he will know the relation he bears to the Father, and will, there- 
fore, be in a condition to perceive and comprehend the will and 
purpose of God concerning him, his mission, and his ultimate 
destiny; he will be able to draw knowledge from the Mind that 
controls all the affairs of earth. 

Man is threefold in his nature, — body, soul and spirit. To be 
perfect, an immortal, he must round out all sides of his nature, 
establishing an equilibrium. Until this result is obtained, he has 



18 THE ROAD TO IMMORTALITY. 

not reached the goal of human attainment, and is open to various 
deceptions, and many disappointments. He still lacks wisdom, 
and is unable to succesfully withstand the subtle forces that 
guard the spiritual realm from unlawful intruders. It requires 
a fearless and well-trained will to conquer these monsters who 
obey only those who have learned how to command them. 

The material body of man allies him to the world of effect, 
which is the visible expression of unseen, and — to the majority 
of people — unknown laws. These laws are active in the realm 
of soul, and only a spiritual consciousness is capable of fully 
understanding them. Man as we know him in our age, does 
not (appear to) possess this consciousness, at least it is not suf- 
ficently active to be of practical use in his daily life. It is la- 
tent in all, however, and will manifest itself as soon as the phys- 
ical body has become sufficiently purified and refined to per- 
mit it to do so. We will, therefore, first call attention to the 
methods by which this much desired condition- may be reached. 

It is most important that the physical organism be consid- 
ered: it allies man to the earth, and is the medium through 
which the soul gains experience and thereby knowledge. The 
material body is a thought creation, builded of elements drawn 
from the blood by the Virgo function, the chemist of the human 
organism. This function is controlled by the intellectual mind, 
whose seat is in the brain, under orders, as it were, of the soul 
or interior mind, whose seat is in the Solar Plexus. The body 
is builded under the direction of the soul mind, in order that 
it may be a fitting instrument through which the expe 1 *iences 
necessary to the soul may be gained. 

The man who has not risen above the animal plane req 
material body, in order that he may gain a comprehens^ 
derstanding of the laws and methods active in the \ 
world in which he dwells. The spiritual man requires a more 
refined organism, in order that he may be able to understand 
and use the more subtle forces belonging to the realm which 
he is preparing to enter. The methods by which the body may 



THE ROAD TO IMMORTALITY. 19 

be refined and spiritualized are based upon the formulation of 
pure and holy thoughts. Before the body can be changed, new 
and more refined qualities of life must not only be gathered 
but retained in the organism. It is absolutely necessary that 
all the life generated by the body be retained, in order that the 
blood may be kept filled with the proper magnetic elements 
with which to supply to body and mind the vitality required 
by all who would withstand the powers of disease and conse- 
quent decay. 

In order that finer and more spiritual life may be gathered, 
more exalted realms of mind must be reached than is possible 
or necessary to the man living wholly in the external senses. 
This can be accomplished only through soul aspiration, which 
is true prayer. This prayer arises in the heart, the seat of the 
love nature, the emotions, and the desires. The more exalted 
the desire, the higher will be the realm of spirit reached. A 
desire to be intelligently formulated must fit some special use 
arising in the mind. Holy and unselfish desires bring the 
quickest and surest results. If the desire is for an immortal, 
spiritual existence, it must be absloutely free from all thought 
of self or wish for power to control another. Immortality is 
the highest possible attainment man can hope for or at pres- 
ent comprehend, therefore an intelligent desire for such attain- 
ment cannot be formulated until the selfhood has been cruci- 
fied and forever placed under the absolute control of the higher 
faculties of mind. 

But one attitude of mind will enable man to reach those 

jalms of spirit which gives him power with the immortals, 
and this mental attitude is not possible until he has grown so 

red of earthly things that he is willing to die to all material 
pleasures and desires, hopes and joys. Truly, man must die to 
i be old before it is possible for him to enter the new; he must 
be willing to renounce all ties, of every name and nature, which 
in the slightest degree bind him to the old order and condition 
of life. He must feel in the interior consciousness that the only 



20 THE ROAD TO IMMORTALITY. 

thing which will bring him complete happiness and satisfaction, 
is to become an instrument in the hands of the Supreme to 
serve in the elevation of the race to a higher plane of soul con- 
sciousness. 

The man who would become an immortal must truly desire 
to be a servant of humanity. To attain this end he must first 
know himself: he must be able to analyze every desire arising 
in the heart, to decide whether it is useful to his welfare or a 
hindrance to his spiritual progress. The desires must be con- 
trolled by the mind. Use must be the law governing his ac- 
tions. He must be able to utilize or reject any or all of his 
desires and emotions. Not only must he be able to do this, 
but he must be willing to place himself, without a doubt or 
reservation, in the keeping of his highest conception of God; 
he must be willing absolutely to trust his heavenly Father, 
whose wisdom, love, and justice, he knows will permit only 
only those trials and disappointments that are necessary to his 
welfare. 

Two ways of living are presented to all; man can, if he so 
desires, rely upon his own strength, or upon the power of the 
Spirit. If his dependence is in the power of flesh, he trusts in 
human judgment, which is unreliable. If he is satisfied to de- 
pend upon the power of the Spirit to guide, he will always have 
a sure refuge in the hour of need. If he must still lean upon 
the uncertain arm of flesh, if it is impossible for him to trust 
God wholly, he cannot obtain the guidance of the Spirit. When 
man can trust God fully, the power of the Father is his; he is 
in a condition to enter the ''Narrow Way," the way of holiness. 
And if he unfaulteringly treads the way of holiness, he will soon 
realize that sorrow and pain have fled, never to return — and 
they never will return unless he wanders from the true path. 
Every mortal that would leave the land of shadow, must tread 
the "Narrow Way" of holiness. It is the only way by which 
the land of eternal sunshine can be reached. 

No dangers or trials are ever found in the Way of Holiness. 



THE KOAJ) TO IMMORTALITY. 21 

But he who strays from the true path, because of striving to 
live up to his own ideals, will find himself confronted by diffi- 
culties and dangers. To keep in the path is to be ever con- 
scious of the presence of the Spirit. Live rightly, regardless 
of what it costs. To follow the inner promptings of the soul, 
without reference to the opinion of others, is the only safe way. 
Patience and fortitude of soul is, therefore, to be learned here; 
no matter what may come to you. do not falter, but with re- 
newed energy, determination, and prayer, press onward; you 
can, and eventually will, if you are faithful, reach the desired 
haven. 

Many grand and devout souls are scattered throughout the 
land, who continually think pure and holy thoughts, and who 
daily pray, %k Let thy kingdom come, thy will be done," yet ap- 
parently they do not obtain an answer to their prayer. They 
live, perhaps, the allotted three score years and ten, and pass 
from earth without reaching the goal of earthly existence. They 
fail to reach that goal because they have no knowledge of the 
law, therefore do not live in obedience to it. These beautiful 
souls are God's little, well beloved children. Their prayers., 
when truly from the soul, have been always answered; perhaps 
not as they hoped, but, nevertheless, answered. Such souls are 
tenderly nurtured and protected by our ever watchful,. loving 
Parent. Whenever he sees that the experience necessary to fit 
them for future use has been obtained, he gathers them to hiiii^ 
self. These grand souls must, however, re-incarnate, and again 
become workers among men. They will not remember the past, 
but. their aspirations and devout, unselfish life, have builded 
beautiful and highly exalted souls. Thousands of such are ac- 
tive members in the Christian churches, awaiting the time when 
(rod sees fit to awaken them to their true use in his vineyard. 

The souls now on earth who are ready to comprehend God's 
laws are no longer little children; they have grown to be men 
and women. Therefore God no longer carries them in his 
bosom, with jealous love protecting and guarding them from 



22 THE ROAD TO IMMORTALITY. 

all dangers, but sets them upon their feet, and gives the com-' 
mand, "Go work in my vineyard." They have grown old 
enough to be trusted with the mysteries of life, and of death. 
The proof of their readiness is in the deep yearning of the soul 
to know the will of the Father that they may do it. They 
could but imperfectly obey the will before, because they had 
not the necessary experience. They could not dedicate their 
all to the Father, because they were unable to comprehend the 
need of such a renunciation. They could not take the name of 
God for their protection, because they did not know his name. 
(The name and its use will be explained further on.) 

If our readers have reached a mature stage of growth, they 
will understand the need of a complete surrender to the Spirit 
of God. Feeling the necessity of this is not sufficient; the sur- 
render must be made by the interior nature, by every atom of 
the being. Years of constant effort are required, and much 
self-sacrifice, before this most desirable end can be fully real- 
ized. The old ego, self, continually present, is an almost in- 
surmountable barrier to the unfoldinent of soul powers. It 
stands ever beside man to remind him of his earthly existence, 
and, as it is the personality, it will not be set aside without a 
great struggle. Self dies hard, and dies only after the inner 
man has gained complete mastery over the lower nature. If 
you would set aside the lower self and replace it by the spirit- 
ual man, the celestial-born son of God, you must avoid those 
who scoff at sacred, or spiritual things. Seek only the society 
of those who are pure and free from sensual thoughts. It 
would be far better to dwell in solitude than to spend your time 
in the company of the ungodly. 

The man who would reach the high goal of human attain- 
ment, oneness with God, must learn not to condemn his fel- 
lows. He should look upon man as a creation of God, and as 
possessing the latent powers of an archangel. There is good 
in all; search for the good, and ever love the divine principle, 
hidden, it may be, under a rough and repulsive exterior. Over- 
come evil with good. Pray constantly that you may receive 



THE ROAD TO IMMORTALITY. 23 

from God, wisdom, knowledge, and understanding. Remem- 
ber, however, that you will not receive these gifts until you 
have renounced evil and are able to hold fast to the good. 
Only those who are able to discreetly use divine wisdom will 
receive it into their hearts. Without wisdom from on high, 
you will surely fail in your struggle to overthrow the powers of 
evil which have heretofore controlled your life. 

If man would throw off the mortal and put on the immortal, 
he must not attempt to store up riches in provision for the fu- 
ture. Such an attitude of mind, in itself, precludes the possi- 
bility of gaining an immortal existence. Remember that the 
man or the woman who has renounced the world, who has dedi- 
cated his or her life to God, no longer owns that life, but must 
live up to the injunction of Jesus, "Take no thought for the 
morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of 
itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." iMatt. VI. 34. 
(Carefully consider St. Matthew, VI.) If your dedication 
has been complete, you will know that God has accepted you, 
and that he will provide all things necessary to your com- 
fort. It is not to be inferred, as many will undoubtedly do. 
that yon are to sit down in idleness, depending upon God to 
bring you the needed supplies in some miraculous manner. 
Such a course will surely bring disappointment: God will do 
nothing for you that you can do yourself. It is only the un- 
balanced man, the man lacking in knowledge and understand- 
ing, who trusts in this way. The wise man, the well-balanced 
son of God, does his best, and when he has done this, he confi- 
dently, with loving trust, looks to his Father, knowing full well 
that, when the limit of his own strength has been reached, God 
will supply that which is lacking. 

The man who would receive the illumination of the Spirit, 
must use whatever mind power he may possess; it is only through 
use that such faculties are developed. Therefore he must con- 
tinually gather thought, not alone for his own need, but for the 
needs of those who stand below him in soul unfoldment. As 
he gathers and disseminates this vital thought, clothed with the 



•14 THE" road to immortality. 

potential energies drawn from the mind of God, his mind quick- 
ens into greater action, and. in consequence, becomes more re- 
ceptive, or better able to reflect the purpose of the higher mind 
and will. The more yon give, the more you will receive: the 
more unselfish you are, the more perfectly will you be able to 
gather thoughts that will be of benefit to others. 

We advise those who are seeking immortality to cast their 
bread upon the waters, to scatter it upon the tide of human 
life. Rest assured, if you do so, with the desire . active to serve 
the needs of humanity, it will return, increased an hundred 
fold. Neither the man who tries to obtain knowledge for self 
alone, nor the one who sits down and dreams his time away, 
will amount to very much: both will slowly but surely sink 
into that state of sleep which means, not immortality but death — 
death not only to the physical man, but. to the mental as well. 
The dreamer will never reach the high goal of attainment, he 
will never enter heaven: only the fearless, unselfish warrior who 
is constantly on the alert, ever watching the enemy in order to 
gain the mastery over it, will obtain the right to dwell in the 
kingdom of the blest. 

The man who dreams instead of laboring, has the opportunity 
for soul growth presented to him, but as he sleeps, he does not 
perceive it. If he gathers thoughts at all, they are not prac- 
tical. Not having his purpose well denned, he has no center 
from which to work, no foundation upon which to erect his 
spiritual structure. He is like a ship without a chart or com- 
pass. When the dark tempestuous night overtakes the dreamer, 
he will awaken to find himself struggling upon the quicksand 
of doubt and materialism, lost through disobedience and wasted 
opportunities. The man who dreams instead of laboring, weak- 
ens his mental faculties, and therefore becomes an easy prey to 
the vampires who feed upon humanity. His struggles are of 
short duration, however; he soon passes from earth to enter the 
land of souls, not as immortal, but as one in a dream, contin- 
ually lamenting his wasted opportunities, his misspent life, uu- 



THE ROAD TO IMMORTALITY. 25 

til kind nature puts him to sleep, a state in which he remains 
until the time arrives for him to again take on an earthly cov- 
ering, to begin life where he left oft', with greater trials before 
him than he has yet encountered. 

The idle dreamer is of but little use to the human race. In- 
stead of building upon the only sure foundation, — the rock of 
truth, — a tower whose light will illuminate the earth, he builds 
upon the sands of uncertainty, and never really lays the founda-* 
tion for a well-balanced spiritual nature. If you would be an 
overcomer of evil, if you would command and be obeyed, you 
must labor incessantly with your body and with your mental 
faculties: labor with the body in order that it may be filled with 
enduring strength and vigor; labor with your mental faculties in 
order that, through use, you may so develop them that the power 
of man be transformed into the transcendental power of a god. 
The mental faculties are the servants of the spirit, and through 
them you receive spiritual illumination. Mind is all that sur- 
vives when the external covering is cast off. Therefore, if you 
would unfold that consciousness that never slumbers or sleeps, 
use every means at your command. When you do this, higher 
means will be presented to you, and in time you will realize 
in every fiber of your being that you have truly passed from 
death unto life; not through the gateway of the grave, but 
through the alliance of your finite mind to the infinite mind 
of God. i 



CHAPTER III 



THE FOUNTAIN OF LIVING WATERS. 

In the preceding chapter we stated that, by a process of the 
mind, the material body is builded of thought potencies drawn 
from elements of life contained in the blood. If the seeker 
after immortality would have a physical organism that is proof 
against the adversaries disease and death, and one able freely to 
supply the demands of the mind, he. must keep it filled with 
the elements of life. Those living in the old order of life can- 
not do this; the life generated is not all retained, as it should 
be, but is continually being squandered in the gratification of 
abnormal passions, the natural fruit of ignorance and unre- 
strained animal desires. Squandering the precious elements of 
life, causes an abnormal drain upon the fountain of supply; this 
weakens the organs which gather, and, as they become impo- 
tent, they are unable to perform the task imposed upon them. 
As the supply diminishes, youthful vivacity and vigor are 
superseded by old age, and death finally results. 

Once in every four weeks there is born within the human 
organism a germ, designated a "psychic germ.' ? This germ is 
endowed with higher qualities of life than are the germs from 
which the physical body has been builded, and which are gen- 
erated daily. It may be called the "evolutionary germ,'' for 
through the potencies of the life contained in it man advances 
toward his ultimate destiny, oneness with Spirit. When lim- 
ited, or incorporated into form, be it animal or human, life al- 
ways struggles to express the qualities of mind with which it 
is endowed; consequently, as the life contained in a psychic 
germ is endowed with mental power beyond that possessed by 
the individual, and as it endeavors to express that higher qual- 
ity, manifestly a struggle is the result. As the mind strives to 



THE ROAD TO IMMORTALITY. 27 

harmonize the body, and to adjust it to the more spiritual po- 
tencies with which it has been entrusted, a state of mental an- 
tagonism arises; so that if the mind is not centralized on spirit, 
and if it is not free from sense desire, the struggles result in 
the vital, spiritual germ being rejected from the organism. 

The loss of the spiritual germ generally occurs during sleep, 
when the mind is passive and unconscious of the needs of the 
physical body. The time of the birth of this germ is governed 
by the moon, and it is qualitated by the astral ether in which 
that body is at the time immersed. Each month, as the moon 
enters the sign in which the earth was at the birth of the indi- 
vidual, a psychic germ is born. If this germ is retained in the 
organism until the moon enters the sign it occupied at birth, 
the germ is transmuted, and its mind qualities become incor- 
porated into the man. This higher and more spiritual life in- 
creases the physical and mental capacity of the individual. If 
the psychic germ be transmuted, the next germ is born one 
sign earlier, and is qualitated by the ether in which the moon 
is at that time. This process continues until the qualities of 
the twelve signs are incorporated into the organism. When 
the twelve qualities have become thus incorporated, the powers 
of the earth's zodiac are at the command of the student. The 
second cycle of twelve gives him the powers of the sun's zodiac. 

The vital, or psychic germs are the twelve manner of fruit 
growing upon the tree of life which produces fruit once a 
month. Through the incorporation of spiritual germs into the 
organism man gradually develops beyond the influence of the 
planets, — a condition which is obtained when he evolves into, 
and lives from, the grand solar zodiac. As it takes over 2,000 
years to pass through one sign of the grand solar zodiac, and 
as the qualities received from it are wholly spiritual, his entrance 
into this zodiac marks the time when the student becomes free 
from earthly conditions and starts upon that journey of celestial 
development which knows no end. Thus his growth is eternal, 
his power to gain and utilize knowledge knows no limit, and, 



28 THE ROAD TO IMMORTALITY. 

as be advances toward spirit, the greatest joy of his existence 
will he in the realization of the fact, that, in the unnumbered 
ages to come, he still will be only on the borderland of the il- 
limitable universe that God has created, and permits man to 
explore. 

The unrestrained gratification of the sense desires results in 
abnormal passions, which dull the finer sensibilities, benumb 
the mental faculties, cause man to squander the precious fluid 
of life, and so corrupt his mind that he is almost wholly gov- 
erned by a distorted imagination. This lusting after the flesh, 
has so blunted his higher nature as to have almost deprived 
him of the finer spiritual instinct, or intuitions, which are the 
only sure guide to health and contentment. It has caused him 
to become so immersed in material substance, that he has lost 
sight of the true use for which the "power of creation" was 
given him. Such a course of life produces in the interior na- 
ture a condition of unrest and dissatisfaction, which results di- 
rectly in unhappiness, disease, and death. 

The lower animals, being absolutely controlled by the crea- 
tive mind which rules the forces of generation, obey implicitly 
the prompting of nature, which is, "Increase and multiply, and 
replenish the earth." Man alone misuses the powers intrusted 
to him, and we find the fruits of his sin filling our jails, pen- 
itentiaries, and asylums with beings in human form, indeed, 
but with instincts far below those of their brothers who find 
embodiment in brute form. The sin of the parents finds ex- 
pression through their children, producing, in many instances, 
such abnormal desires, that, even in childhood, they are fre- 
quently enslaved by those vices which rob man of his true 
manly dignity and godlikeness. 

Refusing to resist unholy desire, and, on the other hand, 
seeking pleasure in order to gratify the lustings of the lower 
nature, have so weakened the will of man as to make it almost 
impossible for him to resist these lustings. The end of such a 
course of life is fearful to contemplate — a day of reckoning* 



THK ROAD TO IMMORTALITY. 29 

must surely come. The gratification of unholy desire is the 
direct cause of sin, is the main spring- of all the evils which 
causes ~such dark shadows to envelop our race. The man who 
makes no effort to control his sense nature is very low in spirit- 
ual unfoldment. in his insane desire to satisfy the awful crav- 
ing of the senses, he tramples in the dust all the holier instincts 
of the refined and virtuous. Such depravity, if permitted to 
continue, must, sooner or later, bring ruin and disaster to the 
human race. 

The abnormal craving and gratification of sense desire have 
created in the unseen world monsters of most malignant charac- 
ter. These creations of unholy passion are inflamed and con- 
trolled by lustful cravings that nothing will appease. Crea- 
tions of inharmonious and perverted thought, formed by a 
mind governed by unrestrained passion, and depending on the 
over-flow of human life to sustain their consciousness* and to 
gain power, these creatures become vampires haunting the 
borderland in order to prey upon humanity. They know no 
distinction of persons, no one is free from their baneful pres- 
ence. They haunt the chambers of the pure as well as those 
of the impure, but prefer the impure, because the depraved 
are more in sympathy with themselves: no one, however, is en- 
tirely free from their evil influence. They delight in darkness 
and sin, and prey upon their unconscious victims during both 
the waking and sleeping state. During sleep they reflect the 
most depraved and lustful thoughts upon the mind, causing 
dreams of such a nature that the dreamer looses the divine, 
life creating, and life-sustaining substance while he is uncon- 
scious, and therefore unable to protect himself. 

Physicians, parents, priests, and scientists, who should be 
true advisers and spiritual guides, delude humanity with the 
idea that the loss of the vital fluid is not only necessary to 
health, but conducive to mental strength as well. They claim 

*Many will question this assertion, but from personal observation the author is 
convinced that the human elemental does depend upon human life to perpetuate 
its consciousness. 



30 THE KOAD TO IMMORTALITY. 

that loss of the seminal fluid during sleep cannot he controlled, 
that it is nature's method of relieving the system of the surplus 
-accumulation of life, which otherwise would produce disease and 
seriously affect the organism. Such ideas are not only repul- 
sive to the finer instincts of man, but ar« erroneous in the ex- 
treme. This perverted and unnatural belief, so prevalent among 
the masses, and the criminal neglect on the part of parents, 
who refuse, through false modesty, to impart the needed in- 
structions to their offspring, has produced a most deplorable 
state of morals in the social world; such a state, in fact, as 
makes it almost impossible for the spiritual man to exist on 
earth at the present time, and tens of thousands of the fairest, 
purest, and most spiritual, the choicest flowers that God has 
planted in this world of matter, early fade and die, simply be- 
cause they cannot live in the hotbed of vice which it has be- 
come: These beautiful souls, who so early pass from the trials 
"and sorrows of earth life, are true saviors. Could they live and 
mature, could their holy thoughts and aspirations find lodg- 
ment in the hearts of men, a great change would soon take 
place; men would quickly learn that the ways of God lead to 
happiness and joy, that the tree of knowledge does indeed 
bring forth immortal fruit, does indeed impart wisdom and un- 
derstanding to all who, through purity of desire, are enabled 
to eat of it. 

As our earth grows older, sin, sorrow, and unrest increase, 
until there is scarcely a contented aud thoroughly happy indi- 
vidual to be found. There must be a cause for this, otherwise 
such conditions would not exist: and the cause undoubtedly lies 
in the fact that the distorted condition of mind, caused by a 
depraved and uncontrolled use of the sex nature, has forced 
-man from the path marked out for him by our all- wise and 
loving Creator. He has wandered so far from the true path 
that he has lost sight of the the purpose for which he was cre- 
ated. He has become so thoroughly steeped in the material 
elements of earth that he has forgotten, or, if he has not for- 



THE ROAD TO IMMORTALITY. 31 

gotten, he is unable to use, his spiritual powers. These powers 
are, however, still latent within, and can be again used, as they 
were before the fall of man when Adam walked and talked with 
God. As man was created in order that he might be the means 
through which the Creator could manifest his wondrous power 
and love, and as man has gained sufficient knowledge to enable 
him to do this, the present condition of disease and consequent 
unrest can exist but a short time longer. 

Man was permitted to fall from the high spiritual state in 
which he once existed, in order that he might have knowledge 
requisite to command the principalities and powers of the uni- 
verse. He has now gained sufficient soul powers to do this; 
although* at present, they lay dormant, awaiting the inflow of 
divine love to quicken them to action. These powers will 
quickly spring into manifestation, however, when the earthly 
tabernacle has been cleansed, freed from those evils which sap, 
and eventually destroy, the higher faculties. Those who are 
striving after an immortal existence, will tind that a task ap* 
palling to a Hercules is before them, when they thus try to 
cleanse the tabernacle. As they begin to inspire the elements 
of spirit they will become conscious that the depraved state of 
the human mind has produced such gross conditions in the at- 
mosphere, that only the most depraved and vicious can exist 
with any degree of comfort and happiness. The spiritual man 
or woman will soon realize that, if he or she would worship 
God after the dictates of the heart, there is no place on earth 
in which to do so, no atmosphere that is untainted with the 
lustful emanations of a sinful people, apparently no sphere of 
mind from which to draw pure and holy thought. 

The man who is beginning to overcome his lower nature, and 
who realizes that he is living in and surrounded by impure and 
baneful influences, must not despair and return to the old con* 
dition; there is a sphere from which to breathe, as well as a 
realm of thought as pure as when it was created by our Father, 
who knows perfectly the needs of his children; there is a relam 



$2 THE ROAD TO IMMOKTA LITY. 

of mind and life-sustaining elements that the lustful thoughts 
and desires of man cannot penetrate. All may reach this 
realm, and, by the powers of God unfolded within them, 
they may draw therefrom, not only pure and immortal life 
qualities, but elements of mind which will illuminate the brain 
to such a degree of intensity that the thoughts created no 
longer partake of the crude, uncertain form of a material ex- 
istence, but, being clothed in elements undefiled, are robed in 
the spiritual garment of truth. It takes a strong and deter- 
mined effort, together with an intense yearning of the interior, 
on the part of the seeker after truth, if he would know God, if 
he would reach beyond the environments of earth and draw, 
from the fountains of divine, immortal life, the pure elements 
needed to sustain and nourish the spiritual man, the human be- 
ing' who has become the divine son of God. 

In the ages that have long since faded from the minds of men, 
when our earth was young and undefiled by the base passions of 
animal humanity, the way to the higher realms, ''was broad and 
free from trial, and brought immortal fruit; but when Adam 
fell, the way became narrow and full of dangers." It is very 
different in our age, as the seeker after an immortal existence 
will realize before he has gone far. The monsters that have 
been created by man, — man as an individual and as a race, — 
the spirits that control the elements, as well as those that tiud 
a home within the individual, must be met, and conquered by 
him. The misshapen entities which live in the borderland sepa- 
rating the two worlds, must be made servants to your will, my 
reader, before they will permit you to pass beyond their kingdom. 
The creative word, the spirit that controls generation in all its 
varied forms, and compels all nature to reproduce each after 
its kind, must be made obedient to your command. This is 
not possible until the likeness of the Father manifests itself in 
you. You must be proven and tried to your utmost capacity 
of endurance; you must wrestle with the god of nature (The 
Elohim), even as Jacob the patriarch of old did. And when 



THE ROAD TO IMMORTALITY. 33 

you realize, as he did, that you are indeed a conqueror, you 
will comprehend many of the mysteries veiled from sinful man, 
and will understand that Jacob's vision was not a creation of 
his imagination, for the angels of the Lord will descend and 
bless you as they did him. They will feed you with the heav- 
enly manna, of which the mortal unregenerated man can knuw 
nothing. 

The Herculean task which lies before all those who would 
gain immortality would be utterly impossible of accomplishment 
by mortal man, were it not for the fact that God has promised 
that if you dedicate your life to him, you will be his sons, and 
he will be your strength, A dedication of your life to God and 
a renunciation of self, is absolutely necessary to a realization of 
this promise. "Ye shall have no other power beside me," was 
the command of God to ancient Israel, and, in so far as they 
kept the covenant, he was indeed their strength. Other gods 
and powers beside the God of creation have heretofore ruled 
your lives. If you would become immortal, you must refuse to 
serve the powers of evil; your trust must no longer be in man, 
in the gods of gold and silver, but in the Supreme Ruler of all, 
our hope and our strength. 

The seeker after immortality, after the dedication to God has 
been determined upon, must live a life of absolute purity, a life 
of celibacy; nay, more, a life of absolute continency, a life free 
from every desire for sense gratification of any name or nature. 
He has entered the eternal sabbath and must cease from the 
work of creation, — generation, — as did God when he finished 
his labors. Without a single reservation, he must fully deter- 
mine in the interior that all the life gathered shall be wholly 
devoted to the use of the body and mind. He must dedicate 
that life to the higher uses of spiritual unfoldment, and, by 
constant prayer and holy desire, so impregnate his entire be- 
ing with holy and righteous thought, that he may become filled 
with spiritual light and power. The monsters, the creations of 
a mind governed by lust, dread the light, and cannot approach 



34 THE ROAD TO IMMORTALITY. 

or torment the individual who is consecrated to God and has 
become illuminated by the inflow of the diviner elements of 
spirit. u For thou wilt light my candle: the Lord my God will 
enlighten my darkness." Psalms XVIII. 28. 

Beginners will find great difficulty in conserving all the life 
gathered; many years of constant effort are frequently required 
to accomplish the desired results. But the waste of life must 
be controlled, otherwise immortality is impossible. Constant 
vigilance and unyielding determination must be ever active; 
you must continually remain in the watch tower. Refuse to 
allow impure thoughts to find a lodgment in the mind. Your 
desires must be entirely free from all those things which, in any 
way, ally you to the world of generation. Your association 
with the opposite sex must be of such a character as to pre- 
clude all desire for carnal relation. You must avoid those who 
are impure in thought, word, or act. If the presence of any person 
causes you to have unholy desires, avoid that person as you would 
a pestilence. Do not lose sight of the fact that you can commit 
adultery in thought as well as act. "Sing, O barren, thou that 
didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou 
that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of 
the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the 
Lord." Isa. LIV.l. The waking thoughts follow man into the 
dream state, and if he indulges in impure thoughts, they will 
cause dreams that will bring regrets and disappointment. 

The mind governs the physical body in the sleeping as it does 
in the waking state. If it is unhampered by astral influences 
or other causes, it will guard the body and prevent loss of the 
vital fluid, as the sleeping as well as the waking consciousness 
obeys only the promptings of the Spirit to whom the individual 
has dedicated his life. You must not depend upon the Spirit to 
overcome for you; if you do so, you will surely be disappointed. 
You must overcome for yourself, by your own strength; the 
Spirit supplies power only when you have done your utmost to 
overcome. It is an easy matter to control the life fluids while 



THE ROAD TO IMMORTALITY. 36 

the body is active and all the faculties are on the alert; but 
during* sleep, when the faculties are passive, the great difficulty 
arises. The soul never sleeps; and, if you would control the 
body during the hours of rest, you should, when retiring, im- 
press upon the soul by means of auto-suggestion the imperative 
necessity of remaining with the body to protect it. The sub- 
jective consciousness, the soul, obeys the mandate of the object- 
ive consciousness, the mind, if the will is sufficiently strong to 
enforce obedience. If the will be kept active by persistent ef- 
fort, it will in time grow strong enough to accomplish this pur- 
pose. As the energies are stored, and as the mental and phys- 
ical body becomes refined, the dead, unconscious sleep gradu- 
ally ceases. As man becomes conscious of his spiritual nature, 
he loses all desire for unconscious sleep; when he lays the body 
down to rest, he passes from a lower state of consciousness to a 
higher, but he never permits the action of the interior mind to 
cease. You must strive by all the methods at your command 
to cease from that sleep which is death. When you retire at 
night, after you have impressed the soul with the command "Be 
watchful," commence a line of thought, and endeavor, with the 
interior mind, to hold to it without wavering. Your first at- 
tempt may not be entirely successful; after some months, how- 
ever, if you are persistent and are able to conserve the vital 
fluids, you will notice a gradual change, hardly perceptible at 
first, but, if you hold fast to your purpose, complete success 
will crown your efforts. When you have overcome the old un- 
conscious sleep, you will have developed the ability to perceive 
and understand the mysteries of the soul realm. As the sub- 
ject of sleep is a very important one, we will elaborate upon 
it further on. 

The student who does not at first succeed in retaining the 
vital fluids, must not be discouraged. If failures occur, there 
is still some mental reservation, some desire for sense gratifica- 
tion, remaining hidden in some recess of the mind. Search dili- 
gently, until the difficulty has been found and cast out. The 




36 THE KOAD TO IMMORTALITY. 

dominion can never be obtained until all desire for sense grati- 
fication has been destroyed. The dominion over the monsters 
who haunt your chamber will never be gained until the mind 
is in perfect accord with the purpose of the higher self, which 
is complete emancipation from all carnal lusts and desires. As 
man succeeds in transmuting the vital fluids, his consciousness 
increases, and the organism becomes more receptive to spiritual 
impressions; his intuitonal, or interior powers increase to a 
marvelous degree, until, as time rolls on, his exterior and in- 
terior consciousness become one. When the union of the higher 
and lower self takes place, you will have a consciousness that 
rests not day nor night, but ever increases in its power of ac- 
tion and continually draws you closer to God, until eventually 
you can truly say, as did our Lord, "I and my Father are one," 
which is the ultimate destiny of all men. 

In striving 1 to overcome all waste of the vital fluid, man 
must be ever on his guard against doing those things that will 
weaken the normal action of the organs of sex. The idea is, 
not to destroy or weaken in any way, but to build up and 
strengthen. The normal activity of the sex, especially in the 
early morning hours, is caused by the fires that are transmut- 
ing the gross material substance to finer and more spiritual 
ones. This activity must not be suppressed, nature must not 
be interfered with in her endeavors to work in harmony with 
God's laws. While the fires of transmutation are active, the 
mind should be not only absolutely free from lustful thoughts, 
but, in loving aspiration and with the soul open to receive the 
inflow of his Spirit, it should be centralized on God, the source 
of all life and power. At this time, if the right attitude of 
mind be held, the fires of God will descend and fill the individ- 
ual with love and peace. These fires consume the dross, leav- 
ing only the purer elements, which strengthen and enrich the 
blood, illuminate the intellect, and truly give man access to the 
fountains of living waters, that wash away all taint of death 
and decay. This inflow of divine fire is the true elixir of life. 



THE ROAD TO IMMORTALITY. 37 

sought for by many, but gained by only the few exalted, illu- 
minated seers who have willingly surrendered the vanities and 
delusions of earth life, in order that they may be worthy to en- 
ter the kingdom of God, where alone will be found the bread 
of life which endows man with not only an immortal conscious- 
ness, but with knowledge enabling him to fathom mysteries 
wisely hidden from all those who are controlled by depraved 
and soul-destroying sense desires. 



CHAPTER IV. 



STEPS OF ATTAINMENT. 

It should be borne in mind that each individual is endowed 
with characteristics and requirements peculiarly his own; there- 
fore in their practical application, these instructions may be 
modified to suit the needs of the student. The writer has pre- 
sented only such methods as have been successfully applied 
by his associates and which he has found adapted to his own 
peculiar requirements. In order to obtain the most speedy and 
lasting results, the student should make a careful study of his 
individual needs. If he does so, he will soon be able to mark 
out for himself the course of life best adapted to hasten the un- 
foldment of the powers of his soul; and, as he advances, he will 
be able to make such changes in these methods as will suit the 
requirements of his individual organism. He should be care- 
ful, however, not to develop one side of his nature at the ex- 
pense of another; in order to be practical man must have all 
sides of his nature equally unfolded, therefore great care should 
be exercised, or evil results may follow the application of these 
methods. Be sure not to misinterpret our words, as many will 
do. If we advise the "conservation of the life," we mean ab- 
solute conservation. If we recommend total renunciation of 
the "material things of earth," we wish you to understand us 
as meaning that it must be done without a single reservation. 
Many believe that they are living the life of regeneration, when 
they are far from doing so. Such will never obtain the results 
promised. The fault lies with the individual and not with the 
methods of life recommended. Remember the words of Jesus; 
"No man can serve two masters: * * * ye cannot serve 
God and mammon." 

The character of the perfect man is so well balanced in its 



THE ROAD TO IMMORTALITY. 39 

unfold men t that all sides of his nature work together without 
friction, in complete harmony with the design of God. Unless 
this condition obtains, immortality is impossible; the Spirit will 
be unable to express its divine likeness. The man who would 
obtain and retain perfect health, and consequent happiness, 
must have the physical organism under perfect control. He 
must be master in the house he occupies, and in which he gains 
an understanding of law that enables him to become a creator, 
a king, a son of God. If the physical body is not under con- 
trol of the higher faculties, unclean spirits will enter and de- 
file this temple of the soul. A diseased body is conclusive evi- 
dence that the mind controlling it is not working in harmony 
with the interior man, or in accordance with law. The interior 
man will forever remain earth-bound, unless it awakens to its 
true nature and requirements. When it thus awakens, it will 
build a physical organism that will be free from the possibili- 
ties of disease and death, and through which it can express its 
divine power, 

Before the interior man can gain complete control over its 
physical organism, it must realize that it is spirit, it must be- 
come fully conscious that the external body is only an instru- 
ment builded of material elements by the mind, which is under 
direction to serve the needs of the soul. Such thoughts as "I 
am spirit;" I live from the Father, therefore >*I am perfect;" 
ik I cannot die," should be impressed upon the consciousness 
until they are fully realized in every fiber of the being. If 
these thoughts are held in the mind, and not a doubt is al- 
lowed to enter, "faith" is awakened in the individual, a men- 
tal state inherited from the "word of God," the power of cre- 
ation, or generation, which governs the life of the planet earth. 
When an immortal man determines to perform certain acts, the 
power of "faith" enables him to say, without fear of failure, "It 
shall be done," and the desired results are obtained. Without 
this inherent power, which is termed "faith," and which must 
not be confounded with "belief, "..man could not exist for a sin- 



40 THE ROAD TO IMMORTALITY. 

gle moment. When he reaches the point where he realizes that 
"he is one with the Father," he will be able to draw the power 
of faith into his organism from the Source of all power, and the 
measure of the inspiration will be limited only by his. needs. 
Jesns said, "If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye 
shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; 
and it shall remove: and nothing shall be impossible unto you." 
Matt. XVII. 20. The full meaning of "faith" can neither be 
expressed nor understood by a man living wholly in the intel- 
lect. If intellectual man were able to understand this myste- 
rious, spiritual, and irresistible force, he would be possessed of 
powers that he could not handle, and which would prove his 
destruction; therefore our Father has, in his great wisdom, hid- 
den it from the wise ones of earth, but will reveal it to the 
spiritual babes who are one with Christ. We can, at best, only 
hope to lead the student to where he will be aide to gain through 
his own interior comprehension, an understanding- of this most 
subtle power which God has implanted within all. We can per- 
ceive how it is manifested in vegetable, animal, and human life, 
but the mysterious law which governs it will remain unformu- 
lated- by the human mind until man reaches the sublime degree 
of spirit consciousness. St. Paul defines faith as "the substance 
of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Hebrews 
II. 1: Faith has a part in all life upon our planet, from the 
lowest to the highest. Without faith the grass could not grow, 
and man himself, were he entirely devoid of faith, would be 
unable to perform the simplest act, even to the moving of a 
muscle. This faith, which St. Paul wisely terms "the substance 
of things hoped for," can be increased in man, providing he 
dedicates his life unreservedly to God aud trusts him without 
a doubt. When he can do this, he will be able, by the power 
of soul prayer, to draw this substance into his organism; and 
then he will always have the support of the strong arm of the 
Father. He will no longer be compelled to depend upon the 
arm of flesh; his help and defense will be in the God of the 
universe. 



THE ROAD TO IMMORTALITY. 41 

The will of man is the epitome of his mind force, or power 
of action. It is the sum total of the strength possessed by 
the mind to decree, and to carry to ultimates the purpose of 
that decree. An unyielding will is an absolute necessity to 
those who are striving to overcome the power of the grave; for 
without it they will be unable to conquer the adversaries that 
use every means to prevent them from gaining power and do- 
minion over death. These adversaries know that when a man 
has become immortal, all beneath him is subject to his desires. 
The will may be strengthened by continually holding to the 
thought, "I will succeed." Will to do only those things that 
you feel you have the power to accomplish; otherwise you will 
weaken instead of strengthen your will. 

Begin the work of strengthening the will by taking complete 
control of the physical body. Man, being the epitome of the 
whole, will find that, when he has gained full control of his 
own organism, he has gained control of the forces outside of 
himself. Should the body feel dull and refuse to perform the 
duties assigned to it, compel it to do so. If it is in pain, refuse 
to be misled; endeavor to realize in every fiber of your being, 
that you are spirit, therefore cannot suffer, and move steadily 
forward, refusing to be bribed either by pain or pleasure. If 
the appetite craves food that you know will deaden the sensibi- 
lities and will not nourish the body, refuse to eat it. Great 
discretion must be used in the care of the body. It would be 
impossible for us to specify a line of dietetics; that which would 
be "meat to one, would be poisou to another." If wisdom is 
used in the matter of food, — eating- to live, not living to eat, — 
a normal appetite will soon be acquired, which will at all times 
be a certain guide. However, we do recommend abstinence 
from spices, tea, coffee, tobacco, and alcohol. After you have 
gained complete control of the lower nature, you will under- 
stand where St. Paul stood when he said, "All things are law- 
ful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are 
lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of 



£2 THE ROAD TO IMMORTALITY. 

any." I. Cor. vi. 12. You must remember that in your strug- 
gle to overcome passion you will have all that you can possibly 
do, therefore you should avoid all those things that will in any 
way stimulate or increase the power of the old serpent. Look 
upon the body simply as an animal; attend to its needs, but 
nothing more. You will find, after you have shut off the waste 
of the life, that you require very little food. If you feel the 
need of stimulants, draw what you require from the fountain 
of life, to which you have free access. If you ignore the senses, 
and look upon them as only servants given by an all-wise Cre- 
ator for the purpose of apprising you of the needs of the phys- 
ical body, you will quickly develop the stoic, and be able to 
decide for yourself as to both the amount and quality of food 
you require. 

There are two kinds of will, — the will of energy and the 
will of stillness. The will of energy actuates the physical body 
and enables the student to gain control of external conditions. 
The will of stillness is the interior or spiritual will; it works in 
silence as does the will of God. It is the latter will that en- 
ables man to be a creator, to command the forces and elements 
of nature; through its power man is able to pierce further and 
further into spirit, until he stands before the great white throne, 
and becomes a "pillar in the temple of his God." We see the 
power of this will manifested in the silence of nature; in the 
growing grass, the budding trees, the blooming flowers. All 
nature lives and grows under the command of this resistless 
force. It would be well for the seeker after truth to remember 
that silence does much to unfold the consciousness of the soul: 
t% Be still and know God," is a wise command. It is only in the 
stillness of the soul, in the sacred center of being, where the 
flame burns steadily upon the altar, that God's presence is felt 
and his voice heard. The literal rendering of the word "sin," 
is noise, confusion; it therefore follows that, if man would grow 
in wisdom and be free from sin, he should dwell as much as 
possible in silent musing. It is also true that the more highly 



THK ROAD TO IMMORTALITY. 43 

developed the soul, the greater the love for the silence, the 
more intense the desire to be free from the noise and confusion 
of the world, to dwell with God in the realm of silence. The 
prophet Jeremiah advises, "Let us enter into the defensed city, 
and let us be silent there." Jer. vTH. 14. We also, dear 
reader, advise you to learn to be silent, if you desire wisdom 
and the guidance of God. 

The wills may be strengthened and made to work in their 
specific fields of service by the following drills: In the seclusion 
and silence of your chamber, quietly sit with your face toward 
the east, body erect, and hands placed lightly upon the knees. 
Endeavor to realize the fact that you are in the life currents of 
the Infinite, to whom your life has been dedicated. Let your 
mind go out to Him in loving trust and desire that your body may 
be filled with those qualities of his life which are necessary to 
the ultimation of the purpose to which your life has been con- 
secrated. Breathe slowly and regularly, in the following man- 
ner: — As you draw in the breath, pronounce the word will, 
mentally, and as you exhale the breath, pronounce the word 
STILL, also mentally. As the breathing is continued you will 
draw in the qualities of life you require, it being a law that we 
always draw to us those things which we truly desire from the 
soul. This manner of sitting and breathing makes you recep- 
tive to the inflow of divine life. Sit for at least fifteen minutes 
daily; thirty minutes would be better, but in the beginning the 
student is apt to relax his vigilance, and under such circum- 
stances evil results may follow. Be careful not to fall asleep 
during your time of sitting, as to do so places you in danger of 
being obsessed by those adversaries who are drawn to yon at 
this time, and who will endeavor to turn you from your pur- 
pose. Be negative to the mind and will of God, and positive 
to all other influences. Sit for a purpose, clear and well de- 
fined. Should visions of any character come before the mind, 
set them aside; one thing at a time should be an unfailing rule. 

The masters, — those who have become immortal, and who 



44 THE ROAD TO IMMORTALITY. 

have passed beyond physical environments, are the only ones 
recognized by the writer as masters, — will always render assist- 
ance to those who are endeavoring to strengthen the will by 
lawful methods and for a wise purpose. The student who de- 
sires help from these wise and holy men should remember that 
egotism is not will. The line between the consciousness of your 
superior endowments — gained by living a life of renunciation 
and regeneration — and egotism, is so narrow that few have the 
power of discrimination sufficiently developed to define it. It 
is right and proper for you to recognize your divine souship, 
but you should at the same time remember that you are still a 
babe, still swayed by the passions, still human, still under the 
law of sin and death. To rise above that law you must always 
hold the spirit of love and charity toward all God's creatures. 
Should you imagine that you are specially favored of God be- 
cause of your personality, you will retard your advancement; 
and should you hold to this error, you will fall, never to rise 
again in this incarnation — u God is no respecter of persons. " 
As you continue to live in harmony with the expressed purpose 
of the Father, and to develop the diviner principles, you will 
draw closer to him, and be better able to express diviner attri- 
butes than can those who have not the soul unfoldment that 
you possess; but at the same time remember that the spirit 
which animates all men is equal; that all, in time, will reach 
oneness with God, and will, therefore, become the perfect ex- 
pression of principles. It is man's nearness to God, which 
alone makes him superior to his fellows. If you are superior 
your life will be marked by deeds of charity and love, unselfish 
acts, and freedom from those vices which benumb the higher 
faculties. Never use the power of your will to control the ac- 
tions of another; to do so is to commit one of the worst crimes 
possible to imagine. God has given every man the right to the 
unrestrained use of his mentality, and should you in any way 
endeavor to control the mind of one of God's children, sad in- 
deed will be your end. Divine justice will. sooner or later deal 



THE ROAD TO IMMORTALITY. 45 

with you as you deal with others. Let your life at all times be 
marked by simplicity of character, and pure and holy acts. 
Learn to love your neighbor as yourself; but love the personal- 
ity of no man. If you love the personality of another, you 
draw to yourself, through sympathy, the evils that rule and 
bind that one to earth. 

Our Lord and Master, Jesus, said, "If any man come to me, 
and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, 
and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot 
be my disciple." St. Luke XIV. 28. This is a statement from 
the highest authority, whose language is unmistakably plain and 
emphatic. It shows, without a shadow of a doubt, the attitude 
of mind required by all who would obtain discipleshipof Christ. 
The word "hate," used in this connection, means to repel, and 
is not to be accepted in the sense of desiring that evil befall those 
with whom we associate. God never commands his children to 
direct an evil wish or an evil thought toward a fellow-man, but 
he does command all who would attain to "his likeness" to repel 
those things which in any way hinder the unfoldment of a 
spiritual consciousness, If we do not repel the evils active in 
those we have loved, we will remain one with the great body of 
humanity, we will never be able to withdraw from it, which we 
must do if we would obtain righteousness and freedom from 
the flesh „ 

Each one who travels the way of righteousness must indeed 
realize that "he is despised and rejected of men; a man of sor- 
rows, and acquainted with grief" (Isa. LIII. 3), for this road is so 
narrow that but one can go that way at a time. He who endeavors 
to take another witli him, entails upon himself insurmountable 
difficulties; sooner or later he will realize that his responsibili- 
ties are greater than he can possibly bear, and he will be forced 
to relinquish his burden and proceed alone. Far better is it to 
leave the burden behind in the beginning, than to carry it for 
a time, and then find that he has undertaken more than he can 
hope to accomplish. This life — while in the beginning very 



THE ROAD TO IMMORTALITY. 

difficult and full of sorrow, by reason of breaking away from 
the old ties and associations — is, nevertheless, productive of 
many sacred and holy joys and pleasures, unknown to the lust- 
ful sons of men. As you begin to recognize a spirit conscious- 
ness, yon will realize that the angel world is drawing closer 
and closer to you; and if you persist, and desire knowledge for 
the sole purpose of assisting humanity, an angel will walk be- 
side you to guide and instruct, to shed the light of his presence 
around you, and to illuminate your pathway. If you labor un- 
selfishly you cannot go astray. Isaiah the prophet of God tells 
us, "Yahveh shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul 
in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a 
watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail 
not." Isaiah TVIII. 11. The angel that Yahveh sends to you, 
will point out the pitfalls in your path and all the dangers that 
menace you. However, do not endeavor to lean for support 
upon, or expect strength from, this heavenly guide; you must 
learn to stand alone, learn to depend upon the power of God 
to strengthen and support. When you have done the best you 
possibly can, then look for help — not before. The presence of 
the guiding spirit is very real to some; to others the guidance 
comes as the "silent voice speaking within;" to yet others it is 
revealed through the illumination of the mind, each one receiv- 
ing according to his needs and in the way necessary to his pe- 
culiar requirements. 

.The guidance of the Spirit will continue with, and will re- 
veal itself according to the need of the student, until he passes 
through the first three Degrees (of which there are seven) of 
his attainment, and has entered well into the Fourth. After 
the student has passed into the Fourth Degree, the guidance 
gradually withdraws, leaving him apparently alone, with no 
light from the Spirit. The first three Degrees mark the child- 
hood of the student; they are Degrees of preparation. When 
he enters the Fourth he is nearing manhood, and must hence- 
forth pass onward alone, depending for guidance upon the 



THE ROAD TO IMMORTALITY. 47 

spiritual consciousness that he has developed, and living by the 
light of the knowledge gained in the previous Degrees. In 
this Degree his strength and fortitude are tested to the utmost, 
in order that his abilities and powers may be proven. If he is 
found worthy, and his dedication to God has been complete 
as far as he is able to comprehend it, preparation is made to 
admit him into the Royal Fifth. The Fifth Degree is the en- 
trance, as it were, to the world of cause. It is the Degree of 
the Nazarite, or rather the entrance to that sublime degree, — 
the Sixth. The promise made by the angel to the neophyte 
of the Sixth Degree is this: k - Him that overcometh will I make 
a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: 
and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name 
of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh 
down out of heaven from my God: and 1 will write upon him 
my new name." Rev. in. 12. To he a Nazarite the student 
must be entirely separate from the world, and sanctified or 
made holy by the Spirit; and this condition cannot possibly 
obtain until the Celestial Sixth has been reached, as no man 
can dedicate himself, body, soul, and spirit, to God until he 
has been completely separated from all the ties of earth, until 
he has become an immortal. In the Fifth Degree man becomes 
clothed with the spotless garments of everlasting youth. When 
he enters this Degree he is admitted to the spiritual temple, he 
meets the holy ones face to face, and becomes a co-worker with 
them. He now understands that his elder brother Jesus Christ 
did not come to earth to save the souls of men; but to point 
out the way whereby the physical body could be freed from the 
taint of sin, which is death, and made immortal, through be- 1 
coming subservient to the spirit within. This knowledge led 



& 



the apostle to exclaim, "Death is swallowed up in victory." 

The entrance to the Temple of Wisdom is at the end of a 
dark and fearful passage leading from the Fourth Degree. 
When the student reaches this dark passage, he is prepared 
for death. If he enters, he can never return, never again labor 



48 THE ROAD TO IMMORTALITY. 

with the sons of earth, as one with them; he is dead to the 
world — as literally as if he were laid in the grave, and the 
only hope remaining for him is to press onward until he reaches 
the far end and enters the Temple, never again to return to 
his labors as a mortal, but as an immortal — or, at least, the 
possibilities of immortality are within his grasp. Should he, 
for any cause whatsoever, fail to pass the ordeal which he 
meets in the dark and narrow corridor, he will be deprived of 
his physical body, and be forced to enter the realm of souls, 
there to remain until another opportunity presents itself to him. 
The dangers and trials to be met in the Fourth Degree are of 
such a character that no one could possibly describe them; it 
is only necessary to say, that all will be tried wherein they are 
weakest. Therefore be admonished, and by a life of true self- 
sacrifice and pure aud holy desires, strengthen every link of 
your armor. Above all, do not allow the yearning of the love 
nature to mislead you into forming an alliance with the oppo- 
site sex. Many men, personally known to the writer, have be- 
come hopelessly lost through the lack of power to control their 
love nature. 

in the dark passage man enters the Hall of Judgment where 
the good and evil deeds of the past are summed up and brought 
before him, to be judged by him. At some period of his soul's 
unfoldment the student will realize that God judges no man, 
but that every man is a judge unto himself. If the good and 
evil deeds balance, if the ego has become submissive to the 
higher attributes of spirit, if the heart has become pure and 
free from unholy desires, if the soul has been purified by having 
> passed through the fires, and if the entire nature has become 
attuned to the vibrations of spirit, the sins are all wiped out, — 
man passes onward, a new and higher spiritual being. Should 
egotism blind the eyes of the soul, or love of praise or fear of 
blame be still active in the breast, man will find himself in ab- 
solute darkness, and if he does not repent, death comes to him 
in an unexpected way. If all love of earth, all desires for pleas- 



THE ROAD TO IMMORTALITY. 49 

ure are eradicated, the student truly dies to all material condi- 
tions, and receives the baptism of the Spirit which gives him 
immortality, age-lasting life. When the fullness of the Fifth 
Degree has been reached, man will find himself in the realm of 
causation and able to command the conditions necessary to his 
welfare. 

In the Fifth Degree the power of the silent will, the will of 
stillness, begins to be manifest. Previous to this time the neo- 
phyte has been the warrior, the positive overcomer of material 
conditions. He has been moving steadily forward conquering, 
little "by little, the evils, inherited and acquired, which belong- 
to the lower nature. He has been building conditions in his 
physical body, whereby the divine son, the higher self, can 
show forth the wisdom and glory of the Father. To accom- 
plish all this he has been compelled to use the positive, external 
will, the will of execution, the will active in the material world. 
Now all is changed; having reached the Fifth Degree, he is 
fitted to enter and explore the realm of cause. As he enters 
that realm he realizes the necessity of obtaining an understand- 
ing of the laws therein active, in order that he may possess the 
necessary powers to labor in that world. It is the world of 
creation into which he has entered, and the will by which he 
must rule, is the silent will of stillness, that will which causes 
all things to obey, that will which will allow nothing to inter- 
fere with the purpose of the Creator. In this degree the neo- 
phyte feels the need of wisdom and discrimination; and in order 
to gain wisdom he must draw into his organism, by persistent 
silent musing, the principle of love which finds expression in 
the nature of the divine Mother. He must strive to come to 
an understanding of that love; he must endeavor to realize the 
difference between that love, which is life, and the carnal de- 
sire active in the world, which has been mis-called by that 
holy and sacred term. He should bear in mind, that the di- 
vine feminine is love, the divine masculine is knowledge; the 
child born from the union of these two principles is wisdom. 



50 THE ROAD TO IMMORTALITY. 

When man has sufficiently developed the spiritual powers, 
he enters the Sixth Degree, the Degree wherein the "likeness 
of the Father" manifests itself. This Degree is the crowning- 
ultimate of the present time; it is here that the flaming sword 
is lifted; man passes behind the veil, and receives from the 
formless one, the keys which unlock for him the mysteries of 
life and death.* It would profit little to dwell upon the grand- 
eur of the perfected souls who have attained to that high and 
holy degree. Long before man reaches this state, he will have 
developed wisdom and understanding; he will no longer be de- 
pendent upon others for instruction; he will have returned to 
Eden where he can at all times "behold the face of the Father," 
having become one with him. Such grand souls are immortal 
in the broadest meaning of the term; they have overcome death, 
therefore the grave has no terrors for them. 



*In regard to these sublime degrees we think we may speak from analogy and 
from authorities, if not from experience. 



CHAPTER V 



THE HOLY NAME. 

When God determined to free Israel from the bonds of 
slavery he selected Moses, a man learned in the knowledge of 
the Egyptian priesthood, as their deliverer. In order to dem- 
onstrate to Pharaoh that God had indeed ordained Israel as 
his chosen people, it was necessary that Moses should possess 
greater wisdom and be able to perform greater wonders than 
the priests and wise men who had been his instructors in the 
mysteries of magic. That Moses might receive the instruction 
requisite to fit him for his mission, God led him to the moun- 
tain of Horeb (the mount of solitude), where, in a burning 
bush (God is a consuming fire), he revealed to his chosen serv- 
ant the great and holy Name. 

God's Name, as revealed to Moses, was the sacred Hebrew 
word of four letters, YHVH, pronounced Yahveh, the literal 
translation of which is 4k I will be what I will to be." Ex. in. 
14. This holy Name, composed of the four Hebrew letters, Yod, 
He, Vau, He. is twofold in character; it represents the Theos, 
or male principle of Divinity, and the Sophia, Wisdom, the di- 
vine female principle, the universal Mother-Nature. The first 
letter, Yod (hand), signifies "the active principle, or power of 
creation, the supreme will of execution." The second letter, 
He (window), indicates "the gate to Eden," or the entrance 
into the heavenly kingdom of the immortals. The third letter, 
Vau, means "a nail," and symbolizes that all who have incor- 
porated the qualities of the Name into their organism, are allied 
to the God of the universe, through being able to work in har- 
mony with his will, and are therefore forever "firmly united to 
the Supreme Mind." The fourth letter, He (window), is a 
repetition of the second, and represents, or symbolizes, "the 



52 THE LtOAD TO IMMORTALITY. 

second veil, or entrance to the Holy of holies/' All who obtain 
a correct understanding' of this Name, by accepting Yahveh as 
their strength, will realize that they have "power with God and 
man, and have become masters." To gain this realization they 
must be obedient to the promptings of the Spirit; otherwise 
they will call down the fires of infinite wrath, which will con- 
sume them. Therefore when you pray that the divine fires may 
enter, be careful that your thoughts are pure and unselfish, and 
free from sense desires of any kind. 

The Name Yahveh remained with Israel until they defiled 
themselves by lustful and idolatrous worship. They were re- 
peatedly warned, and admonished to turn from their sinful 
ways, but they turned deaf ears and sank deeper into sensual- 
ism and adultery. Therefore God took from Israel the knowl- 
edge of his Name, and, losing it, they lost power and prestige, 
and eventually were scattered as a nation, and lost to the his- 
tory of the world. "Behold, I have sworn by my great Name, 
saith Yahveh, that my Name shall no more be named in the 
mouth of any man of Judah, in all the lancl of Egypt." Jer. 
XLIV. 26. Strange to say, even the learned Hebrews of the 
present day have not the correct understanding of the great 
Name of God; but to lost Israel, the seed of Abraham, God's 
auointed people, the great Name has been revealed anew, and 
many are beginning to realize that in it lies the secret of true 
spiritual power, and eternal, conscious life. By God's anointed 
people we mean, the Christian nations of the earth, who un- 
doubtedly are the lost ten tribes of Israel. 

The ancient students of magic understood that in the Name 
Yahveh was great potency, but they certainly did not compre- 
hend its full importance or the power to be derived from its 
use: under such conditions they would have realized that "the 
secret (power) of Yahveh is with them that fear (consecrate 
themselves to) him; and he will show them his covenant." 
Psalm XXV. 14. (Read Exodus xix. if you would become fa- 
miliar with the covenant promise of God.) Had the ancients 



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been spiritually illuminated, they would have understood the 
necessity of a life of renunciation and regeneration; God would 
have revealed his Name to them in all its fullness, and through 
it they would have gained, what they sought so earnestly, the 
Elixir of Eternal Youth. 

-The Name of the Deity, which we call Jehovah, is in He- 
brew a Name of four letters, JHVH; and the true pronuncia- 
tion of it is known to very few. The true pronunciation is a 
most secret arcanum, and is a secret of secrets. k He who can 
rightly pronounce it, causes heaven and earth to tremble, for 
it is the Name which rusheth through the universe.' Therefore 
when a devout Jew comes upon it in reading the Scriptures, he 
either does not attempt to pronounce it, but instead makes a 
short pause, or else he substitutes for it the name Adonai, 
ADNI, Lord."— The Kabalah Unveiled. 

Of the various appellations by which they designated Deity, 
the Pythagoreans preferred the name Yahveh. They had many 
others, but this word of four letters they held most sacred. It 
was considered by them too sacred and holy to be pronounced 
or familiarly used, therefore they designated God, when used 
in the sense of the k, I will be what I will to be," as ""Tetragram- 
maton." We must here remind the student that the Name Yah- 
veh is a most sacred and holy Name, and must be used only 
when holy and unselfish ultimates are desired. It should be 
born in mind that tk the value of things is in their use;" there- 
fore, if you value the power of the Spirit, use this word wisely. 

In order to arrive at a true conception of the nature of God and 
the purpose of man's creation and ultimate destiny, the student 
should remember that God is formless. If you picture God as 
having form, you clothe him in garments created in your imagi- 
nation; this makes you an idolator, a worshiper of images. In 
doing this you break the covenant you have made with the 
Creator, and cease to have complete trust in his guiding power. 
God is the mind that fills space; the mind that controls abso- 
lutely, and is obeyed without thought of contradiction. He is the 



>4 THE ROAD. TO IMMORTALITY. 

life that animates and gives consciousness to all creation. Id 
him is all power, all wisdom,' all love. He is the absolute all. 
If it were possible for man to separate himself for a single 
moment from God, consciousness would cease, man would be 
as if he never had existed. The universe sprang into existence 
at his word, and, by the power of his will, he holds all things 
in form. 

The student who is striving after immortality, must incor- 
porate into his organism those divine powers that will give him 
dominion over all things. Yahveh, the U I will be what I will 
to be' 7 , represents those qualities; therefore, when man is able 
to understandingly use the powers represented by that Name, 
he has at his command unlimited capacity to be what he wills 
tdbe. Through this power man has access to wisdom, knowl- 
edge, and understanding. As he grows in knowledge and power, 
he gradually draws himself out from the body of humanity, and 
forces his way deeper and deeper into those fountains of ever- 
lasting youth, flowing unceasingly from the Source of all life. 
As he separates himself from the material condition of physi- 
cal life, he begins to realize that he is gradually gaining domin- 
ion over the forces ruling that realm. The power governing' 
creation, or generation, is the word of power willed by God in- 
to the thought that brought our earth into being. This power 
governs all planetary life. The command, "Increase and multi- 
ply, and replenish the earth," was intrusted to the god of gen- 
eration, the Elohim. Faithfully are those commands executed; 
all nature obeys them without question. Man comes under 
the dominion of this power, the soul of the planet, and were he 
to remain dependent upon his own strength he would never 
rise above generation, never enter the eternal sabbath, never 
become immortal. 

As man is carried upward by the currents of evolution, the 
soul begins to perceive its ultimate destiny. As it begins to 
understand the purpose of its creation, it looks about for the 
methods by which it may obtain the necessary powers to euable 



THE ROAD TO IMMORTALITY. 55 

it to consummate the will of the Father. When man truly 
desires, he establishes the conditions of possession; the soul 
prayer ascends to the throne of the Father, and then comes 
back the answer, "Therefore I say unto you, What things so- 
ever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and 
ye shall have them." St. Mark xi. 24. In order to believe in 
and trust God, man must make a covenant of obedience to him; 
and before this covenant of obedience can either be made or 
ratified, man must understand the meaning of the Father's 
Name — not alone intellectually, but also in the soul. 

When God created Adam, he created him in his own im- 
age, and endowed him with the power to develop his — the 
Father's — likeness. Adam was created an immortal spirit, 
and for the purpose of giving him the opportunity to grow in- 
to the likeness of God he was placed in a beautiful physical 
body. He remained pure and holy, without shame, until the 
god of generation, the Elohim, forced the desire upon him to 
defile his virgin helpmeet Eve. This unlawful act caused Adam 
to recognize his nakedness; sin made him ashamed, and he en- 
deavored to hide from God, who, up to this time, "talked with 
him face to face." Cain, the first fruit of disobedience, was a 
murderer. He was far from being the equal of his father, who 
had been created by God, and his birth marked the beginning 
of the descent of spiritual man into matter. Adam was an 
immortal, and would have remained so had he obeyed the voice 
of God. Cain and his progeny were mortals, because they were 
born of flesh; they were the offspring of sin, and the result of 
sin is death. For ages the race has been descending deeper 
and deeper into matter. In our age the descendants of Adam 
have become so merged in matter, so under control of the phys- 
ical senses, that the spirit within is unable to express its true 
nature. They have wandered so far from the true path that 
they are utterly unable to comprehend spirit. They have gone 
as deep into matter as it is possible for them to do; the requi- 
site knowledge has been g-ained, and the. only true course of 



00 THE ROAD TO IMMORTALITY. 

life now lies before them. They must either ally themselves to 
the Spirit, and rise to a condition of celestial power, or once 
more descend, until another cycle passes and another oppor- 
tunity presents itself. There is only one road to heaven, and 
that is found by living the regenerate life. The Kabalists were 
very wise when they taught that Yahveh has ordained that cir- 
cumcision (symbolizing regeneration) is the way to heaven, 
the way to eternal life. 

The age in which we live marks the epoch of man's emanci- 
pation. Proof of this lies in the fact that the sacred Name of 
God is being revealed to the world, and also that great num- 
bers are at the present time seeking immortality. "They shall 
call on my Name, and I will hear them: I will say, it is my peo- 
ple: and they shall say, Yahveh is my God." Zech. XIll. 9. 
The desire for immortality has become almost universal, and we 
believe that this desire has caused God again to reveal his Name 
to man. "For this cause have I raised thee up, for to show in 
thee my power: and that my Name may be declared throughout 
all the earth." Ex. ix. 16. 

To use the sacred and holy Name of God for selfish or un- 
lawful purposes is a very serious matter, and will entail much 
suffering upon all who so use it. Before the student decides 
upon the use of the Name, he should be certain that he has 
the consent of the soul. Before the consent of the soul can be 
obtained the life must be consecrated to God. It is a most 
difficult thing to do this, — to renounce the world, and unre- 
servedly consecrate the life to God; yet, unless the consecration 
is complete, the promised results cannot be obtained. Unless 
the whole nature consents, there will always be a reservation; 
and the lower nature will never consent until compelled to do 
so by the interior man. Remember that heretofore "many 
principalities and powers have ruled your life;" but, if you 
dedicate your life to God, you can have no other power beside 
him. u He giveth power and strength to his people." Psalm 
LXVIII. 35. "I am Yahveh; that is my Name: and my glory 



THE ROAD TO IMMORTALITY. -m 

will I not give to another, neither ray Name to graven images." 
Isaiah xlii. 8. 

If the student who makes use of these instructions has not 
already consecrated his life to God and renounced all earthly 
ties, it is to be hoped that he will pause here, and not attempt 
to proceed further until he has done so. The purpose of these 
instructions is to show the student how he can draw down the 
divine fire. If his thoughts are pure and holy, these fires will 
consume all the impurities in the nature, leaving only the 
pure refined gold of spirit life; but if the desires are unholy, 
they will set on fire all the smouldering, therefore unconquered, 
appetites and passions. Unholy desires will cause him to com- 
mit errors and indiscretions that will entail untold sorrow and 
remorse, and perhaps cause death to the physical organism. " And 
Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his 
censer, and put fire therein, and offered strange fire before 
Yahveh, which he commanded them not. And there went out 
fire from Yahveh, and devoured them, and they died before 
Yahveh/' Lev. x. 1, 2. Be warned by the fate which over- 
took these priests in ancient times, and do not attempt to offer 
strange fire upon the altar of God. The altar of man's tem- 
ple is the principle of sex, the fountain of life, of creative en- 
ergy and power. 

God, being the mind and life of the universe, contains within 
himself all qualities and principles. Before man attempts to 
draw these divine qualities inio his nature, he must decide what 
is necessary to the ultimation of his purpose. The ultimate for 
which man is destined, is to be like God — in his likeness cre- 
ated he man. Therefore if man would unfold that likeness he 
must be able to say, "I will be what I will to be/' To be able 
to say k T will," necessitates the ability to will and to do. This 
power may be gained if the following suggestions are faithfully 
followed: — 

Set apart one hour each day for this purpose, the hour of 
sunrise being the best. Use a room occupied only by yourself, 



58 nil. KOAD TO IMMORTALITY. 

and dedicate it to the service of God. Consecrate all you are 
or hope to be to the Holy Spirit, the unformed ocean of deific 
mind that fills all space and controls all life; and fervently 
desire that that mind will accept the dedication, and take full 
possession of your room. When you have dedicated your room 
to God, look upon it as a most sacred place, a temple in which 
you are to worship him. Before you enter this room, — if you 
wish for certain results — be absolutely sure that your mind is, 
free from hatred, anger, jealousy, passion, or any evil thought 
or desire. Try to feel in a holy frame of mind, at peace with 
your own soul and with all mankind. Strive to realize the sa- 
credness of the presence you are endeavoring to draw to you, 
and the high ultimate you have in view. Have as little furni- 
ture in your room as possible, and let that be of such a charac- 
ter that you can frequently wipe it with a damp cloth. Avoid 
having carpets on the floor, or paper on the walls: these hold 
the old magnetic conditions which you throw off, and which are 
detrimental to your purpose. If you faithfully carry out the 
above instructions, you will be conscious that, when you enter 
your room after a day of worry and struggle, the Spirit is there 
to receive you, and that the Father's love is also there, to renew 
and strengthen your determination. 

Have a seat (a strong wooden chair is best for your purpose) 
especially for your own use, and permit no one else to sit upon 
it. We also advise you to allow no one to enter your room ex- 
cept those who are in full sympathy with your purpose, and 
who realize that your room is your temple, your holy sanctuarv. 
Take your seat facing the east, body erect but not tense: have 
your lower limbs from the hips to the knees horizontal, from 
the knees to the feet perpendicular to the body: hands resting 
lightly on the knees. See to it that the head, neck and chest 
are always in a perpendicular line. You cannot think spiritual 
thoughts if the chest is in a cramped position; nor should you 
permit the head to droop and rest upon the chest, as this posture 
is very injurious, both mentally and physically. Be sure that 



THE ROAD TO IMMORTALITY. 69 

your chair is the right height to permit of this. Sitting in this 
position permits the magnetic and electric currents to pass 
through you without friction. Having seated yourself in the 
proper position, "be still and know God." Try to go out into 
space, in your imagination, and find the light of Spirit. Try, 
with the eyes of the mind, to see a white light, which actually 
exists and fills space. This light is God, and when you are 
able to perceive it, endeavor to draw it into your organism by 
means of the breath, as follows: — 

Breathe deeply and fully, as deeply as possible, and from 
within repeat the first syllable of the sacred Name, — "Yah." En- 
deavor to feel the qualities of that Name entering your being, — 
qualities which are power to execute the purpose of your will. 
If you watch closely you will notice that the breath appears to 
start a current at the lower extremity of the spinal column. 
This interior current changes the flow of the finer life elements: 
heretofore they have flowed downward and outward; now you 
begin to turn them upward and inward toward Spirit, and away 
from material conditions. This current is the means by which 
the magnetic elements — which by the power of transmutation 
have been separated from the life generated in the sex organ — 
are carried to the brain, the instrument through which the 
mind acts, a process which results in the vivification and illu- 
mination of that organ. The elements carried to the brain are 
those desired by the interior mind, and as the interior mind is 
seeking "likeness of God," the qualities represented by the "T 
will be" are drawn upward. 

As you exhale the breath, interiorly repeat the second sylla- 
ble of the sacred Name, — "Veh." This part of the drill, as the 
student will readily perceive, starts a downward current, which, 
when joined to the one flowing upward, creates a wheel that, once 
started, continues to run of its own volition. After you remain 
in this position for a while, your body will become rigid. This 
is as it should be, as it makes you positive to, and proof against, 
external influences of an evil character. Keep the interior 



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nature negative, or open to the inflow of divine power, and be 
sure you do not lose consciousness, or become entranced. If 
you do so, you will run great danger of being controlled; and 
instead of developing into a son of God, you will find that you 
have become a medium through which unclean spirits seek to 
manifest their depraved instincts. 

After you have started the currents and found the Spirit 
Light, endeavor to abstract the consciousness from the brain 
by running the thought, "I am spirit," up and down the limbs. 
Do not neglect to keep inspiring the Name, "Yah — Veh. ,r 
You must keep the currents active while engaged in sitting. 
If you find that you can abstract the consciousness from the 
brain, endeavor to centralize it in the sensorium of the heart* 
the organ of sensation and emotion. Be careful, however, not 
to continue the concentration there — especially if you belong 
to an interior sign or to the head of a trinity — but pass imme- 
diately to the feet. Endeavor to feel that you are inside of 
them, and in imagination try to picture them as luminous with 
the white light of Spirit; all the old masters taught that man 
should develop from the feet up. If you find that th^ feet are 
not luminous, but dark and cold, persist in your endeavor to 
make them luminous and filled with life. When all impurities 
are removed, the illuminating power of the Spirit will cause 
them to shine. They must be cleansed, as they represent the 
understanding. If they should burn as with fire, the life that 
is being transmuted is not properly distributed. To correct 
this, draw the life from the feet by the power of thought, and 
diffuse it throughout the body. When you find that" the feet 
are luminous, then with the consciousness draw the light up- 
ward to the calves of the legs. As those organs become puri- 
fied pass on to the next, until you reach the reins, — the smalt 
of the back, the region of the kidneys. Dwell in this organ 
a long while; it is the storehouse for the life, and until 
it has been purified by the divine light, it will be found to be 
full of serpents, which, if you are clairvoyant, you can see. 



THE ROAD TO IMMORTALITY. 61 

Spend some time in the spinal column. This part of the struct- 
ure must be absolutely free from all impurities, or the mind 
will not be illuminated with the white light; and in that case 
the thoughts will be distorted and out of harmony with the 
purpose of God. This is so because the finer and more spirit* 
ual elements of life pass through the spinal column, from the 
reins to the brain. Dwell long in the organ at the base of the 
brain; it must be absolutely free from all impurities. This is 
the organ that controls animal sensation; and if it is not lumi- 
nous with the spiritual light, the desires of the lower nature 
will be for animal pleasures. When you pass to the front brain, 
realize that you are now in those organs that express the higher 
mental attributes. The- window through which the soul looks 
out upon the cause world is situated in the organ of perception, 
just above the eyes; the organ of soul-perception being in the 
center. When you can illuminate the body from the crown of 
the head to the soles of the feet, you are in a position to defy 
disease and the unseen powers of the astral world. Do not let 
failure deter you from your purpose; make up your mind to 
work for years, if necessary, until the desired ends are reached. 
But if you persist, and are faithful to your dedication, you will 
sooner or later realize that you are not working alone, but that 
you are allied to the highest and noblest souls now on earth. You 
will also be made to know that these methods have opened for 
you the door to the grandest mystic order in existence, whose 
temple, though hidden from the eyes of men, does exist. Not 
only does this temple exist, but, as they are ready, all will be 
led to it, and will be initiated into the sacred mysteries of life, 
which cannot be revealed to those who would unwisely use them. 
We have endeavored to make these drills as simple as possi- 
ble. We have not gone as deeply into them, or explained them 
as fully, as we would have liked, but we have revealed as much 
as has been permitted. What has been given will be sufficient 
for the faithful ones; for when higher and holier are needed, 
One will be present to make the necessary suggestions. As 



62 THE ROAD TO IMMORTALITY. 

you tread the road in sorrow and in tears, be cheered, dear 
faithful souls, with this thought: You are left alone only be- 
cause it is the wisest plan for you. Your brothers, bound to 
you by ties stronger than the ties of earth, continually watch 
and give aid when it is needed. They are invisible to you now, 
but there will assuredly come a time when the veil will be rent 
asunder, and you will stand face to face, not only with Him 
who has you directly under his charge, but with all the Brother- 
hood, — those who still labor on the visible .plane, and those who 
have passed on to the higher uses in the invisible section. May 
the peace and love of God abide with you until that time 
arrives; and may you be able to drink from the "fountain of 
living waters,'' which give eternal life. 



CHAPTER VI 



CONSCIOUS SLEEP. 

The student who is striving to obtain eternal consciousness 
should bear in mind the fact that, if he is unable to retain 
consciousness during sleep, he is still under the law of death, 
still far from the goal of his desires. The heavy, unconscious 
stupor, so common to all men, and which is considered the cor- 
rect method of obtaining rest, is wholly a condition of the ani- 
mal world, and does not by any means rejuvenate the body; 
on the contrary, persons who indulge in the unconscious sleep, 
frequently awake feeling dull, heavy, and un rested. To sleep 
unconsciously is to permit elementary forces free access, and 
the consequence is that they rob you of the finer magnetic ele- 
ments so essential to perfect health and vigor. If the body is 
unprotected during sleep, the old fetid magnetic emanations of 
your associates, are drawn into it, causing you to feel dull and 
stupid when you awake. 

The immortal spiritual man never for a moment lets go the 
power of forming intelligent thought. It is true that as long 
as he retains the physical body he will permit it to sleep; sleep 
with him, however, is not a state of stupor, but a time for re- 
cuperating the body. During the period of sleep the soul is 
free from the body, and enters the higher realm of mind, or 
rather the realm of mind to which his desires ally it, where it 
lives and labors in a conscious condition. The condition of the 
consciousness of the soul must ever remain a mystery to unre- 
generated man. Too much sleep is harmful to any one; four or 
five hours of such rest should be sufficient for the man who is 
conserving all the energies — of course, those who are squander- 
ing the precious life require more. As the question of sleep is 
very important, we offer the following suggestions to the student. 



64 THE HOAD TO IMMORTALITY. 

Before retiring devote a few minutes to silent meditation, in 
order that the mind may be quieted and made receptive, in 
preparation for the labors which you, the spiritual man, intend it 
shall perform. Bear in mind the thought, that the subjective 
mind, the soul, controls the physical body, its sensations, appe- 
tites, and passions; but it will obey the promptings of the ob- 
jective mind, the intellect. This being true, auto-suggestions 
are not only valuable but necessary to the man who is striving 
to overcome the evils. The suggestions, however, must be 
clearly denned and impressed upon the soul without a mental 
reservation. If there are reservations, the mind cannot impress 
the thought with sufficient power of will to accomplish the re- 
sults desired; at least the results will be effected only in a 
degree corresponding to the amount of force and fixedness of 
purpose possessed by the objective mind. 

Upon retiring suggest to the subjective mind the necessity 
of watching the body and guarding it from those enemies who, 
unless the soul is on guard, will assuredly rob you of the pre- 
cious gold which you are endeavoring to store up. But at the 
same time remember that the thought must not be impressed 
upon the soul that you doubt its ability to care for the body; such* 
a thought will be sufficient to cause the subjective consciousness 
to disregard the promptings of the intellect. You must also 
impress upon the subjective consciousness the necessity of a 
perfect physical body. These suggestions the soul will obey. 
Of course you must not expect the body to change immedi- 
ately; were it perfectly plastic it would do so, but as it is not, 
some time must elapse before the auto-suggestions are mani- 
fest to the external senses. If you find that they are not mani- 
fested, you may rest assured that there is a reservation, or a 
doubt, still existing in the objective mind, which prevents it 
from expressing the thought with sufficient power to insure 
obedience. 

The student who is striving to gain control of the god of 
sleep — one of the most subtle enemies he meets — should, upon 



THE ROAD TO IMMORTALITY. 65 

retiring", bold the mind in the same attitude of watchfulness as 
a man would naturally hold were he compelled to sleep among 
thieves with a great treasure in his possession. If he can avoid 
it, he should never sleep upon a feather bed; a hard hair mat- 
tress is much to be preferred. The bedclothing should be as 
light as possible. Do not, however, go to extremes here, and 
try to do with less than the needs demand; you should sleep 
warmly, but at the same time avoid having too much weight on 
the body. Have your room well ventilated, and when possible 
sleep with the windows open. Have your windows so arranged 
that they can be pulled down from the top as well as raised 
from the bottom, and be sure to avoid draughts. If it ean be 
so arranged, never sleep in your living room. If you have two 
rooms, do not sleep with a fire in your bed chamber, and never 
permit strangers and inharmonious persons to enter it; it should 
be sacred to the purpose to which you have dedicated your life. 
Have your sittings in your bedroom, as long as the weather 
permits; of course, in cold weather use your living room, unless 
you can warm your bedroom sufficiently by leaving the door open 
between the two apartments. Never sleep in the same garments 
that you have worn during the day; and if you take the daily 
baths, as you should, do not change your nightrobe oftener 
than once in two weeks. If you are living a pure and holy 
life, and are conserving the vital fluids, the magnetic elements 
retained by the nightrobe, which should be of soft material, 
will be beneficial to yon. Never sleep in a room into which the 
sun does not shine, and at least once a month allow the rays of 
the sun to touch every part of the body. Until you have gained 
control of the sex function do not take a sun bath oftener than 
once a month; the sun is a generator of life, and until you have 
control, you already have all the life you can utilize. Never 
sleep with a high pillow under your head; if you must use one, 
let it be hard and low. It would be better to do altogether 
without pillows, especially in the case of persons who have been 
breathing through the mouth, and who are endeavoring to 
breathe, as they should, through t*ie nose. 



VRK ROAD TO IMMORTALITY. 

Each one being- differently constituted, no absolute rule can 
be given as to the position in which to lie. The writer gives 
the methods he has found suited to his own requirements:— 
Lie flat upon your back, with the head toward the north, 
hands placed upon the sensorium of the heart, left hand cover- 
ing the right; cross one foot over the other, the left foot upper- 
most. At first this position will be difficult to maintain, but 
after you have become accustomed to it, you will find that you 
better retain the magnetic and electric elements within your- 
self; and as you must conquer old habits, this manner of sleep- 
ing may prove a help in that direction. Sleeping in this posi- 
tion helps to close the door to adverse currents and psychisms. 
After you have gained soul consciousness, and can control the 
life, you will find it much better not to cross the limbs, but to 
admit the free entrance of the magnetic and electric currents; 
you will also be able to determine the position best adapted to 
your requirements. If you watch closely you will also find 
that the position in which you rest affects the mental and sleep 
consciousness to a remarkable degree. As you lie in the differ- 
ent positions carefully study the mental states, and you will 
soon be able to determine whether you should sleep with your 
head north, south, east, or west; then sleep in the position yon 
find best suited to your needs. Should you be restless during 
sleep, change your position until you can determine which po- 
sition is productive of quiet, and which one produces restless- 
ness: you can frequently obtain the desired quiet by standings 
with your bare feet on the ground, turning your face toward 
the east. Choose at all times the quiet; for, remember you are 
striving- to arrive at a state in which all the senses can be 
stilled. 

When you have determined upon the position that you in- 
tend to adopt, quietly settle yourself, and try to realize that 
the body has been laid down to rest, but that the real man, 
living as he does in an ocean of life, never rests; he la- 
bors on, ever on, until he reaches a state of continual rest. 



THE ROAD TO IMMORTALITY. 67 

which is the vest of service. As you quietly lie upon your bed, 
hold the mind passive to the will of the Spirit, but positive 
to all thoughts foreign to your purpose; fix your mind on the 
Infinite, in loving trust, and desire strength and wakefulness. 
Breathe through the nose, slowly and regularly. As you breathe 
in this manner, strive to realize that you have started an inte- 
rior breath, the soul breath, the breath of life, the feminine 
breath of God; the breath which Yahveh lu-eathed into Adam, 
and which made him a conscious, immortal man; a breath which 
he lost when he fell from a state of regeneration to one of gen- 
eration. The interior breath vivifies and strengthens the pow- 
ers of the soul. It is a breath that can be felt by a sensitive 
person who possesses soul unfoldment; it appears (perhaps not 
to all alike) as a sensation of quiet rising and falling in the 
interior,— a sensation which manifests itself in the Virgo func- 
tion of the body. Try to realize that the external atmosphere 
which you are breathing contains many elements besides those 
known to science: it contains the life elements of our Father, — 
the positive life elements which are being incorporated into your 
organic structure, enriching your blood and giving power and 
strength to all your faculties. It is illuminating your brain 
and quickening the power of the intellect, making you a supe- 
rior creature in every sense of the word. As your finite mind 
assimilates the life and mind of the Infinite, you will gradually 
cease to express the mind of the mundane, and begin to express 
the mind and will of the celestial world. Try at this time to 
realize that you are, as it were, at the center of an unlimited 
ocean of pure, divine life, which knows no disease, pain, sor- 
row, or death; that it is ever conscious, ever doing, ever forcing 
all creation onward, with a mind and will that nothing can re- 
sist. If you resist that mind and will you begin to struggle 
and are thrown into confusion; if you work in harmony with 
it, you will be filled with that nameless peace, that peace which 
passeth understanding, that peace unknown in any realm of 
consciousness other than that of spirit. 



88 THE ROAD TO IMMORTALITY. 

In order to gain a soul consciousness you must with an un- 
wavering- determination hold to the foregoing thoughts; when 
they have become a part of your being, you will realize that 
you have passed from death unto life, that you can readily 
comprehend the divine mysteries of Godlikeness, and are able 
to unlock the door of the spiritual kingdom. If you can de- 
velop sufficient strength to say, **I will," you can unlock the 
door of the soul, can lift the veil, can explore the hidden cham- 
bers therein, can turn the eyes within and behold the glories of 
our Father's kingdom. When you can do this, you will be 
amazed at the wondrous power and love of God, and a holy 
and unspeakable joy will fill your soul with praise to Him in 
whose image and likeness you were created; sublime and sacred 
truths will be revealed to you, such truths as are withheld from 
those who dwell with mortals, and are satisfied with material 
dross. 

Should the student, after he has retired, find that he is un- 
able to hold a definite line of thought, or to retain an active 
interior consciousness, but is sinking into that state of stupor 
which is literally death, it may be necessary to resort to drastic 
means in order to accomplish the desired object. We suggest 
that he try the following methods: — 

Spring from the bed, without allowing the external senses an 
opportunity to remonstrate, and proceed at once to sponge your 
body all over with cold water, and afterwards rub it with a 
coarse towel until it is dry and warm. When it has been rubbed 
dry, clothe yourself in loose garments that will permit the air 
to have free access to all parts of the body; walk briskly up and 
down the room until your body glows with the energies you 
have brought into activity. When your body and brain have 
become active, quietly seat yourself in your chair, in an easy 
reclining position. Now try to realize that you have access to 
the fountain of living waters, the divine life, which is filled 
with potential energy and vigor. Try to draw this creative 
life into your body, in order to recuperate the energies: at the 



THE ItOAI) TO IMMORTALITY. 69 

same time through auto-suggestion impress the soul, the con- 
scious, thinking, immortal man, that it does not require to sleep, 
that it must not sink into a state of unconsciousness, but must 
ever remain on guard to protect its servant, the physical body. 
The interior man is spirit, therefore he must always remain 
consciously engaged in forming thought. Remember that you 
are striving to grow into the likeness of Him who never slum- 
bers nor sleeps. You must ever remain conscious, ever press 
onward toward the goal you have set before you, ever realize 
that you are equal and one with the angelic hosts, who press 
around the Father's throne, and continually cry, "Hosanna to 
the Lord on high." When the body feels tired, again retire. 
If, as before, you feel that you are falling into an unconscious 
condition of mind, arise and repeat the drill. Do this time and 
again, even if you have to pass the night without sleep; but do 
not attempt this severe method until you have made some prog- 
ress in retaining the seed. We also advise women not to at- 
tempt to follow these directions; they are differently constituted 
and cast in a finer and more delicate mould than is man. The 
arch-natural woman stands in the life centers; the arch-natural 
man is the expressor of the mind of God. 

No regime can be intelligently laid down by which woman 
can obtain conscious sleep. A positive woman may with safety 
follow the suggestions given to men; a negative woman cannot. 
She should use great discretion and discrimination in the mat- 
ter of obtaining rest; and endeavor by every method at her 
command to retain the finer and more vital elements, which are 
continually flowing out to her associates, even though she be 
unaware of the fact. She should endeavor to establish a tran- 
quil state of mind, refusing to be worried, or to be led into such 
scenes of gaiety or excitement as will arouse the imagination, 
or cause unhappiness or inharmony; both of the conditions last 
named are productive of a mental state detrimental to the con- 
servation of the life forces. She should so arrange her mode 
of living that she may be able to take needed rest whenever 



70 THE ROAD TO IMMORTALITY. 

she feels the strain of undue fatigue. She must remember, 
however, that a heavy, unconscious sleep will not rest her nearly 
so well as will the quiet, semi-conscious, interior musing. When 
she becomes conscious of receiving new and more spiritual life 
potencies, she must be careful not to build ideal states and 
associations, but should centralize her thoughts on God our 
Father, with a desire that the gathered life may be wholly ded- 
icated to him and to the elevation of humanity. Woman's call- 
ing is a high and holy one; the present cycle marks the time 
when she is to be emancipated, when she is to be freed from 
the bondage of sin, consequent upon the fall. She is now to 
occupy her true place by the side of her brother man, as his 
equal and divine helpmeet. 

The student who is compelled to resort to the foregoing* 
methods may, and undoubtedly will, find that he is very tired 
the next day, feeling almost unable to perform his duties; but 
if he keeps the will active, he will be surprised to realize that he 
is not as tired as he had expected to be. Repeat the drill, night 
after night, until success crowns your efforts. You will fail 
many\ many times; but gradually a new consciousness will 
awaken within, and when it does, you will quickly realize that 
the state which you before looked upon as consciousness, was 
but a dream from which you have awakened to find yourself in 
a condition of spiritual consciousness that is everlasting. 

You are striving to become a son of God, therefore need not 
lose the consciousness in order to obtain bodily strength and 
mental vigor; just the reverse is necessary. When you gain a 
soul consciousness that neither slumbers nor ceases from active 
labor, you will require very little sleep; and when you do awaken 
from your conscious sleep, you will be strengthened and invig- 
orated, filled with power and understanding. If you persist in 
your endeavors to sleep consciously, in time you will be sur- 
prised to realize that your body has fallen asleep, but that you, 
the real, conscious, undying man, have all the higher faculties 
awake and active. You may now watch and study the sleeping 



THE ROAD TO IMMORTALITY. 71 

body; it may rest in perfect security, for the master is awake 
and on guard, ever ready to repel the adversary who would at- 
tempt to approach and disturb his servant. You will now 
realize that your physical body is but an animal to be used by 
yon, who are a spiritual son of God. When you can realize 
this, you have made much progress toward your ultimate goal. 

One of the greatest barriers to soul growth has been the fact 
that man has looked upon the physical body as the real entity, 
when it is only a covering, a cloak, that hides the thinking 
spirit, the real ego. It is of earth, earthy, and continually 
changes, eventually returning to the elements from which it 
was created. The divine ego, the celestial word, which ani- 
mates the physical body and gives man the capacity to unfold 
his true nature, will ever urge him forward to more exalted 
spheres of labor and consciousness. It was created in the im- 
age of God, therefore, like the Father, it cannot die, but ever 
draws nearer and nearer to the Source from which it emanated, 
until finally the time will arrive when the likeness of the Father 
shall have been unfolded. Then the ego, having balanced all 
sides of the nature, will realize its true divine, immortal state. 
When the elements and environments with which the soul has 
been surrounded, and which have limited its freedom of action, 
have been removed, the real man will stand forth in all the 
glory of his kingly power, unrestricted in his actions, unlim- 
ited in his capacity to do and be what he desires. Then he 
will fully understand the true significance and power of the 
Holy Word Yahveh, the "I will be what I will to be." Then 
he will be an accepted son, who, although a dweller among 
men, will be perfected in the divine likeness of his Creator. 
Then, and not until then, will man fully realize that he has 
thrown off the mortal garb of earth and has put on the immor- 
tal garment of spirit-consciousness, which gives agelasting life. 

The student must not infer from what has been said about 
"conscious sleep" that the consciousness referred to is the same f 
as the mental state which he has regarded as consciousness: it 



(Z THE ROAD TO IMMORTALITY. 

is far different. So different is it, and so superior to the state 
recognized as consciousness, that it is difficult to describe. 
When one awakens to the external consciousness, he is not at 
v all times able to recall all that he has experienced, but he has 
in the interior, a feeling of knowing, such as he has never felt- 
before. There are many reasons why the experiences of the 
spirit life are not revealed to, or remembered by, the physical 
man. One reason is that those thoughts that we are able to 
recall, or image in the brain, have been created from the life 
of the body. The thoughts in the interior mind have been 
created from higher qualities of life than the external man can 
use or know anything of; and as they have been created out- 
side the sphere of the brain, it is unable to image them, there- 
fore has not the power to call them up. or, as it is termed, "re- 
member" them. 

If man persists in his endeavors to gain an unceasing con- 
sciousness, there will come a time when the interior spiritual 
self will have absolute control over the external consciousness. 
When this power has been gained the ego can return into the 
objective consciousness very cautiously, and, as it returns, it 
can impress upon the brain the image of the thoughts and ex- 
periences of the subjective state. When the ego can do this the 
brain will be able to picture these thoughts, and will know in 
the external what has taken place while the body has been 
sleeping. As the student develops soul consciousness, he will 
realize that there are many tilings that he does not desire to 
bring into the objective mind. These thoughts are, however, 
stored in the soul memory, to be brought into the external when 
need for them arises in the life of the individual. The soul is 
wiser than the external man, and will therefore reveal only 
those things that are of use. 

The dream state lies in the borderland between the lower 
and the higher consciousness. It is a condition or state where 
the subjective and objective consciousness overlap. Dreams 
are the reflection, or impressions from the astral realm, which 



I HE KOAD TO IMMORTALITY. 78 

the external mind receives as it awakens to a consciousness of 
earthly surroundings. There are many kinds of dreams — some 
are useful, being the thoughts of holy men reflected upon the 
mind, to serve as warnings of approaching danger; or they may 
be caused by astral conditions and be prophetic of coining- 
events; they may also be reflections upon the mind by elemen- 
lals that would strive to deceive and mislead. No dream can 
be relied upon as being useful or as conveying a warning or 
as being prophetic, unless it is very vivid, and its meaning 
and purpose firmly impressed upon the mind as the indi- 
vidual awakens to the external. The Holy Ones will never re- 
flect thoughts upon the brain, causing a dream, unless they im- 
press the meaning of it upon the mind. Of course the student 
must remember that the language of the spirit world and of 
God, is a language of form. It therefore follows, that the ani- 
mals, objects, and things, as well as the conditions experienced 
in the dream state, can be interpreted only by those who are 
familiar with the language of symbology, or the use and pur- 
pose of form. The Bible is a sealed book to all except those 
who have been spiritually illuminated, because it was written 
by holy men who were familiar with the language of God, and 
who wrote as the Spirit dictated, so that only the wise would 
understand. 

When the student awakens in the morning he should not 
permit himself to lie and idly dream. If he does he will as- 
suredly fall asleep, and will often find to his sorrow that the 
adversary has robbed him of the precious treasure he has striven 
so laboriously to store up. The time of greatest danger is in 
the early morning hours, and if the student would only remem- 
ber that the body of a healthy man will not awaken naturally 
until it has had sufficient sleep, he would have fewer regrets, 
and would be brighter and more capable of performing his du- 
ties. When you awaken you should arise at once. Do not 
allow the senses to persuade you from doing this, but instantly 
spring with a quick, positive motion upon the floor. Imme- 



74 THE ROAD JO IMMORTALITY. 

diately upon arising take a cold-water bath, regardless of the 
cold or disinclination to do so. In doing- this you will increase 
the power of the will and develop the stoic. If you take con- 
trol of the body with a positive will, the senses will soon become 
what God intended them to be; namely, faithful servants, not 
masters. When you have taken your bath, rub yourself with 
a coarse towel until the circulation is restored and the energies 
brought into activity. (Those who have not robust health should 
modify the bath to suit their physical condition, but should strive 
by all means at their command to make their bodies healthy 
and strong.) After rubbing the body perfectly dry, clothe 
yourself, and then take exercise of such a nature as will har- 
monize body and mind; a quick, positive walk, with the con- 
sciousness active in the body, will, as a rule, be all the exercise 
you will require. When you have finished your walk, return 
to your room and turn your attention to the methods already 
given for inspiring the will. After you have finished your con- 
centration, if it is still too early for you to begin the labors of 
the day, turn your attention to the mind, and endeavor to 
put into order the thoughts you have been formulating. If 
you do this you will find that the thoughts gathered are of such 
a nature as will be practical and useful to your further at- 
tainment. 

Before leaving this subject, we would call our readers' at- 
tention to the fact that they should sleep consciously if they 
would reach the land of promise. In Holy Writ we read that 
before the children of Israel could enter the promised land, 
they had to overthrow the kingdom of Bashau, which, trans- 
lated, means u sleep." So will you have to overcome the king 
of Bashan, if you would enter the kingdom which the Lord 
our God has prepared for all who will conquer the old Levi 
athan, the monster that has thrown the race into a state of 
stupor. Again we read, "The kingdom of heaven suir'ereth 
violence, and the violent take it by force." St. Matt. xi. 12. 
Only the violent — the strong of purpose — will ever pass as an 



THE KOAD TO [MMORTALITY. 75 

immortal, from earth,. the home of mortals, to the celestial land 
of promise. May God give to all seekers after truth, wisdom 
and understanding, and powers that will enable them to let 
their light so shine that the world will perceive and realize 
that righteous sons of God live and move among men; and may 
they bring the truth to those still in darkness, thus blessing 
the race by their presence, and creating holier and brighter 
conditions for the sons of men. Our prayer is, that the truths 
which we have expressed, may awaken in the soul of the devout 
Christian higher aspirations, and a broader comprehension of 
the fact which Jesus demonstrated: — 
Man cannot die ! 
'Tis true the mortal coil 

To dust and ashes doth return 

When it has served its use. 

The true, the animating spark, 

The star divine. 

Image of Him who did 

The universe create, doth not 

Depend on mortal breath, 

Nor earthly loves, its span to eternize. 

In proud preeminence it roams 

From sphere to sphere — 

It is not bound; the broad expanse 

Of space its course doth trace, 

Unmeasured by the highest sense 

Of finite mind. 

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